From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Sep 1 10:24:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B2537B423 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (p30-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.95]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id CAA00138 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 02:24:34 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39AFE63C.88FD22F@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 02:24:12 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: loader.rc References: <20000830071347.A1167@hamlet.nectar.com> <39AD222B.CE9A26B5@newsguy.com> <20000830132053.A15387@hamlet.nectar.com> <39AE970A.30208A56@newsguy.com> <200009010043.RAA43832@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > > This one actually bit me when I upgraded one of my machines to a > version that required "/boot/device.hints". In the dim distant past > when it was still considered OK, I had modified my "/boot/loader.rc" > file to something that worked fine at the time. But it didn't have > the ability to load the device.hints file and the install didn't fix > it. > > Since it's no longer really an option to customize this file, I > would prefer that it be installed unconditionally. Good point. Though, perhaps, a make option to leave that file alone might be interesting. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@white.bunnies.bsdconspiracy.net OK, so the solar flares are my fault.. I am sorry, ok?!?! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message