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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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