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From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>
To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: hm, how to recover from a fscked-up device.hints?
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> I just created myself an interesting challenge:
> 
>  - I basically replaced my /boot/device.hints with a nonsensical one (don't
>    ask), it is not a device.hints file at all.
> 
> How does one recover from that?  Booting kernel.old does not fix it for
> obvious reasons..

If the CDROM suggestion fails, you can try to:

1. load the kernel directly from boot1 (probably won't help, but easy try)
or
2. feed the device.hints through the loader command line.
   (You don't need all of it, need to enable vt, etc)

G'luck

Mark