From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 11 23:07:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F0416A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:07:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ran.psg.com (ip192.186.dsl-acs2.seawa0.iinet.com [209.20.186.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2CE43D39 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:07:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ran.psg.com.psg.com) by ran.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1BYv6d-000KFw-NY for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:06:39 -0700 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16586.15103.274874.510434@ran.psg.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:06:39 -0700 To: FreeBSD Current Subject: X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:07:10 -0000 Subject: Re: seedless kernel References: <16586.14888.563266.352026@ran.psg.com> > boot heading for multiuser. gets the "ad0:" for the > hard drive. displays "Pre-seeding PRNG:" and locks ^ says "Mounting root ..." > up. google for "Pre-seeding PRNG:" produces two > entries with no help. > > i imagine i can boot single abuser, > echo foo > /dev/random > and then go multi. well, that seemed like a good idea. but it did not work. i can boot su, echo > /dev/random, and mount -a. but can not go multi. randy