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From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
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Subject: Re: DEVICE.hints
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 jacks@sage-american.com wrote:

> Ran CVSup for 4.3-RELEASE and ran make buildworld
> which succeeded...
>
> Then make kernel showed that it completed the build, but then it stopped
> with error Code 1 after saying "must setup a /boot/device.hints file first"
>
> I read the handbook, but nothing perpared me for this error.
> Anyone know about this file?
> Also, once such a file is there, should I rerun, make kernel?

	As far as I remember, 4.3-RELEASE doesn't have a
/boot/device.hints file but 5.0-CURRENT does:

	Do the following and then rebuild the kernel and reinstall:

cp -p /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints


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