Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:50:21 +0000 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: pjd@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't build boot blocks after new GPT attributes added Message-ID: <20101028095021.GB393@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <201010270927.04145.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20101027074401.GA18014@icarus.home.lan> <201010270927.04145.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:27:03AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > Maybe you could add text to the handbook to say this, but it is already > implicitly assumed in the handbook section you are referring to since it > assumes you can safely compile a new kernel, etc. [...] If we were to > document those every time it would clutter documentation making it harder for > someone who is new to FreeBSD to simply setup a serial console on a box that > they just installed. It sounds like what we need is a tutorial, and (somewhere else?) the extended version. People seem to trip over things like this fairly often; at least this way we could refer them to a standard text. No, I don't have the backgroud, or cycles, to write it :-) mcl
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