From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 22 22:05:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E606106566C for ; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce.griffiths@xtra.co.nz) Received: from n2b.bullet.mail.aue.yahoo.com (n2b.bullet.mail.aue.yahoo.com [124.108.96.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5E4C8FC0A for ; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [124.108.96.171] by n2.bullet.mail.aue.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Nov 2009 21:52:14 -0000 Received: from [124.108.96.186] by t2.bullet.mail.aue.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Nov 2009 21:52:14 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp101.mail.aue.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Nov 2009 21:52:14 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 256666.15359.bm@omp101.mail.aue.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 55322 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Nov 2009 21:52:14 -0000 Received: from 124.108.96.73 by rel105.mail.aue.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:52:14 -0800 Received: (qmail 57451 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2009 21:52:13 -0000 Received: from 125-237-39-55.jetstream.xtra.co.nz (bruce.griffiths@125.237.39.55 with plain) by smtp104.tnz.mail.aue.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Nov 2009 08:52:13 +1100 EST X-Yahoo-SMTP: iW5Ify6swBAG0vMaYP6_4F5axZj5XNlI5wRHRS9kbLalO0L.dr3C X-YMail-OSG: YYerdnwVM1llKbUir_VMb4TToZKhkqfNQC8vu.mQxJ_xFQMcT12vHJXZiKrx4nj7MrSYvRD3qO1BwYBG.aOlx3gLafl_d5O44HQmE52KsWalsP9SXCotFjvaUWp73MN4k9Cb0uEuUPkudpZWoOmG2baP_oaanCfW0udsIqVyz_VG8JbvnviwTJ9hcLCP8ENEY8ESDYvS63ppsJ4T2HSxCvXoX49zn9qBsu985iw1bdizOg-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <4B09B28C.1070603@xtra.co.nz> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:52:12 +1300 From: Bruce Griffiths User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SUSE/2.0.0-3.1 SeaMonkey/2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: nanobsd (Freebsd 7.2) and GENERIC.hints X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:05:26 -0000 Is there any way of forcing a nanobsd build to use a file other than GENERIC.hints to create the /boot/device.hints? Using a target specific hints file is much simple and less error prone than other methods. Bruce