Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:06:19 +0100 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: Marc LeMaire <krockmitaine@sympatico.ca>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: device.hints problem Message-ID: <200302192223.26743.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <3E525161.9010709@sympatico.ca> References: <3E525161.9010709@sympatico.ca>
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On Tuesday 18 February 2003 04:29 pm, Marc LeMaire wrote: > Hello you all, > This is my first posting here so please be patient :) > I've updated my source tree and by accident, I have the 5.0 release. > That wasn't my intention : I wanted to stay on 4.7 release but I made a > mistake in my cvsup file. Sure enough, while reading the GENERIC kernel, > some lines were quite different from the normal 4.7 release but I > guessed that it was new options with the coming 4.8 release. The make > world and make buildkernel went ok but when I've installed the kernel, I > received this message : > > You must set up a /boot/device.hints file first > > I've looked up the docs, located de device.hints man page. But while I > found an explanation, I haven't found anything about building it, and it > seem to me a daunting task to make a correct device.hints file. My > question is this : how do I make this file ? Is this only a matter of > copying the file GENERIC.hints to /boot/device.hints ? Should I go back > to the 4.7 release ? How ? > > Any "hints" are appreciated > Marc LeMaire Hmm,. I'd say perhaps you may be better suited to 4.7 It seems like you've done some odd things in the updgrade process. But it's impossible to say without knowing all the steps you've done. Did you read the 5.0 UPDATING carefully? Even if you did I'm not sure source upgrade from 4.x to 5.0 works that well anyway, so you may have done nothing wrong. What steps have you taken? have you done mergemaster -p, etc? It is possible that you have put yourself in a halfway stage of a broken system that you can't really get out of. You could try intalling the 4.7R sources again and try the proper upgrade procedure exactly as in UPDATING and it may downgrade you properly also. I don't know how to get a device.hints file, if you can't figure out how to do that, you could back up and reinstall from scratch, 4.7 or 5.0 as you wish. The mini install ISO's are good for that. good luck, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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