Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:25:39 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: <jacks@sage-american.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DEVICE.hints Message-ID: <20010819181805.L2962-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010819231541.01132088@mail.sage-american.com>
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That's strange unless you're getting something other than 4.3
sources because 4.3-RELEASE doesn't contain /boot/device.hints while
-CURRENT and -STABLE does. I've been recompiling the 4.3-RELEASE kernels
a lot recently during the past few days on various machines because of the
security advisories and none of them had a /boot/device.hints file on
them. -CURRENT I know has /boot/device.hints as a requirement. It seems
the UPDATING file you're referring to is probably from -STABLE and not
-RELEASE since the 4.3-RELEASE /usr/src/UPDATING has the following
timestamp:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 31572 Mar 25 10:35 /usr/src/UPDATING
and these are the only entries but no 20000825 entry...
20000827:
sendmail has been updated from 8.9.3 to 8.11.0. Some of the more
visible changes that may immediately affect your configuration
include:
- New default file locations from src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README
- newaliases limited to root and trusted users
- MSA port (587) turned on by default
- New queue file naming system so can't go from 8.11 -> 8.9
- FEATURE(`rbl') renamed to FEATURE(`dnsbl')
- FEATURE(`nullclient') is more full featured
- FEATURE(`nouucp') requires an argument: `reject' or `nospecial'
- mail.local FreeBSD-only -b option changed to -B
- See src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for more info
20000803:
The "installkernel" target has changed slightly. Now even if
you override KERNEL e.g. 'make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL'
it will install the MYKERNEL file (built with the buildkernel
target) as /kernel rather than /MYKERNEL. Those who have
updated their /boot/loader.conf files to point to /MYKERNEL
should remove that entry or perform manual rename of /kernel
to /MYKERNEL.
Cheers,
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 jacks@sage-american.com wrote:
> 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
>
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