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.=20 > That wasn't my intention : I wanted to stay on 4.7 release but I made a= =20 > mistake in my cvsup file. Sure enough, while reading the GENERIC kernel= ,=20 > some lines were quite different from the normal 4.7 release but I=20 > guessed that it was new options with the coming 4.8 release. The make=20 > world and make buildkernel went ok but when I've installed the kernel, = I=20 > received this message : >=20 > You must set up a /boot/device.hints file first >=20 > I've looked up the docs, located de device.hints man page. But while I=20 > found an explanation, I haven't found anything about building it, and i= t=20 > seem to me a daunting task to make a correct device.hints file. My=20 > question is this : how do I make this file ? Is this only a matter of=20 > copying the file GENERIC.hints to /boot/device.hints ? Should I go back= =20 > to the 4.7 release ? How ? >=20 > Any "hints" are appreciated > Marc LeMaire Hmm,. I'd say perhaps you may be better suited to 4.7 It seems like you= 've=20 done some odd things in the updgrade process. But it's impossible to say= =20 without knowing all the steps you've done. Did you read the 5.0 UPDATING= =20 carefully? Even if you did I'm not sure source upgrade from 4.x to 5.0 w= orks=20 that well anyway, so you may have done nothing wrong. =09What steps have you taken? have you done mergemaster -p, etc?=20 It is possible that you have put yourself in a halfway stage of a broken=20 system that you can't really get out of. You could try intalling the 4.7= R=20 sources again and try the proper upgrade procedure exactly as in UPDATING= and=20 it may downgrade you properly also. =09I don't know how to get a device.hints file, if you can't figure out = how to=20 do that, you could back up and reinstall from scratch, 4.7 or 5.0 as you=20 wish. The mini install ISO's are good for that. good luck, =09Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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