From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Oct 28 10:26:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37FEA37B479 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 97008 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2000 17:26:32 -0000 Received: from merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de (131.220.161.121) by dirac.th.physik.uni-bonn.de with SMTP; 28 Oct 2000 17:26:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 17437 invoked by uid 145); 28 Oct 2000 17:26:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Oct 2000 17:26:32 -0000 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:26:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Conrad To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Ralph Schreyer , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiled kernel does not work In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi folks, ok - I think I found out what the problem was, but I don't understand it fully... The config file looked like (taken from GENERIC): #To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints #hints "GENERIC.hints" What we didn't realize was that config tries to use the file .hints even if the hints directive is not given. I would suggest to put a comment into GENERIC since this behavior is not described anywhere... (but the source code - ok :-) Furthermore the kernel seems to fail to load /boot/device.hints (my device.hints was just a copy of GENERIC.hints, as in the distribution). May that be due to the 4.1-R loader we use? Anyhow - now everything works fine... Thanks a lot for your help regards -Jan On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > > > > > > > > O.k., we thought we commented out some devices actually needed, so we > > > > switched them on again one after the other, but the error message > > > > remained, even if we just copied GENERIC to MYKERNEL and compiled MYKERNEL > > > > without any modifications. However, /kernel.GENERIC works. Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > Try a config -r. > > > > > > > Sounds kinda like he upgraded to -current w/o intending to and is > > missing a hints file. The device-hints stuff hasn't been mfc'ed yet, > > has it?? > > No it hasn't - maybe you're right. > > -- Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn Nussallee 12 D-53115 Bonn GERMANY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message