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From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com>
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Cc: Huajian Luo <whatluo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to recover my boot/device.hints
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On Friday 12 August 2005 11:43 pm, Huajian Luo wrote:
> Hi, there
>
> I've just  screwed up my device.hints file when using  echo "blah" >
> /boot/devides.hints,
> and blasted away all the configure file and now when I boot the
> fbsd5.4 there is no
> dmesg scroll up the screen, and same to reboot,  so can somebody tell me
> how to recover this file and let me see what's happening during boot and
> reboot process.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  whatluo.
> _______________________________________________
cp /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints

Beech

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