From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 9 19:48:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D705314E5A for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 19:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1AC1F72 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 10:48:25 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Correction: HEADS UP: config(8) changes.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 10:04:40 +0800." <19990510020443.00A021F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 10:48:25 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990510024827.4A1AC1F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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