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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 10:48:25 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Correction: HEADS UP: config(8) changes.. 
Message-ID:  <19990510024827.4A1AC1F72@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 10:04:40 %2B0800." <19990510020443.00A021F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> 

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> If you had old "tty", "bio", "net", "cam" flags, these are obsolete and will
> now cause a syntax error rather than a warning.
> 
> If you had old "vector xxxintr", it will now cause a syntax error rather than
> a warning.

This is wrong, the warnings are just the same as before.  

> 'config kernel root on xx0' is gone and will cause a (non-fatal) error.

'config kernelname'  (eg: config vmunix) has been tweaked to translate it
into a makeoptions KERNEL=kernelname.

> The old config line is mostly no longer required.  I say mostly, because
> there are some circumstances where people used it to change the default
> kernel name or force a different root device to the boot device.
> 
> Forcing a different root device can be done with the following (in the config
> file itself, or in /etc/make.conf):
> options ROOTDEVICE=\"wd0s1e\"

Corretion.. ROOTDEVNAME..  Also, should be possible to tweak a translation
in for this too so that 'root on foo' gets translated into:
  options ROOTDEVNAME=\"foo\"
I haven't done it because I could think of a zillion better things to do
than fight with lex/yacc. :-]  (like fix the Alpha build)

Cheers,
-Peter



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