From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 19 21:15:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6345A37B40E for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:15:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jacks@sage-american.com) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-171.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.171]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA00938; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:15:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20010819231541.01132088@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 23:15:41 -0500 To: Vincent Poy From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: DEVICE.hints Cc: In-Reply-To: <20010819175755.J2962-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> References: <3.0.5.32.20010819225239.01132088@mail.sage-american.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah, UPDATING now shows "20000825" /boot/device.hints is now required for installkernel to succeed and says to do the copy over as you show.... Thanks for the fast help... getting groggy here... At 06:01 PM 8.19.2001 -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: >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 > > >Cheers, >Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ >Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] >WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] >San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] >HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] >Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin > > > > > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message