From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 19 21:25:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF5737B40F for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7K4Pei29322; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:25:40 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:25:39 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Cc: Subject: Re: DEVICE.hints In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010819231541.01132088@mail.sage-american.com> Message-ID: <20010819181805.L2962-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> 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 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, 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 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message