Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:55:49 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hm, how to recover from a fscked-up device.hints? Message-ID: <20040715135549.GA633@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20040714203642.GA13855@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20040714203642.GA13855@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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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.. The device hints show up as environment variables in the loader (use show). You can remove the ones that conflict (use unset) and add the ones that are missing (use set). -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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