From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 10:43:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BFB37B43F for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA88809; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:43:04 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA02769; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:42:49 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008281742.LAA02769@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: hints static wiring Cc: Donn Miller , Brooks Davis , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2000 05:08:42 CDT." <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> References: <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> <867l92lw8e.wl@tkc.att.ne.jp> <20000827184037.A22500@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <14762.8323.382969.782508@guru.mired.org> <39AA3882.914FC0A0@cvzoom.net> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:42:49 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <14762.14890.276820.183791@guru.mired.org> Mike Meyer writes: : Will the system fail to boot if there isn't an empty device.hints : file? If the kernel doesn't have a hints file compiled into it, then you will have problems. However, you may not have a video console. I've been able to boot my laptop with a kernel that had no hints and this was the result. All the PCI based things worked, as did those things that had a PnP ID, except the video console. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message