From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Oct 28 10:43:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB58137B479 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08511; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:43:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9SHhOv73350; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:43:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:43:23 -0400 (EDT) To: Jan Conrad Cc: Ralph Schreyer , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiled kernel does not work In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14843.3939.843103.250590@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jan Conrad writes: > 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" This line doesn't appear in any config file in RELENG_4. You're somehow running -current. If this is intentional, please read the UPDATING file and you'll see how to deal with hints files. However, I have the feeling that you don't want to be running current. What does the $FreeBSD tag in your makefile say? Where did you get your sources? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message