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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:00:55 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hm, how to recover from a fscked-up device.hints?
Message-ID:  <20040715130055.GC17340@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20040715114425.GG29928@submonkey.net>
References:  <20040714203642.GA13855@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20040715114425.GG29928@submonkey.net>

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> 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..
> 
> Boot from CDROM?

Yeah.. I thought of that one, but I was wondering about something 
more clever. Probably does not exist  :)

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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