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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:23:47 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading -stable -> -current, boot failure? 
Message-ID:  <14820.52307.386792.915088@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <13328.971283415@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
References:  <14820.10867.8261.441382@guru.mired.org> <13328.971283415@winston.osd.bsdi.com>

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> I've got a system with 4.1-STABLE installed. I mount -current sources
> on it, do make buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld and
> reboot. The boot loader runs, gives me the "booting default in..."
> countdown, prints "|", and then stops. After thrashing the disks (with
> *no* boot messages), I get a prompt from init.

Thanks to everyone who pointed out /etc/device.hints. If you do
installkernel without a device.hints, the make fails. My mistake was
assuming I could create an empty one and have it work :-(.

	Thanx again,
	<mike




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