From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 18:50:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4B4937B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:50:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 82587 invoked by uid 100); 8 Mar 2001 02:50:26 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15014.62322.6763.982933@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:50:26 -0600 To: Peter Brezny Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device.hints file missing, kernel install failed In-Reply-To: <93813847@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Peter Brezny > I just updated all my sources with cvsup, did a make buildworld and make > installworld, but after a make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN, a make > installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN fails with the message: > > you must set up a /boot/device.hints file first. > > I've not see this one before. Fix your cvsup setup to use stable-supfile instead of standard-supfile, remove the source tree, and start over from scratch. If you really want to run -CURRENT, read /usr/src/UPDATING. However, it's expected you aren't running -CURRENT unless you're able to diagnose these things yourself. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message