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Subject: Re: -current hangs during boot (UPDATING entry)
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, John W. De Boskey wrote:

> I'm beginning to think we need an updating entry.
> 
> 1. Make sure /dev/random exists 'cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV std'

	Unless you are using devfs.

> 2. Make sure your kernel includes:
> 
> device		random		# Entropy device

	Or the appropriate line in /boot/<mumble>.conf

> 3. Make sure /etc/rc is at rev 1.237 or higher.
> 
> 4. Make sure /etc/rc.shutdown is at rev 1.13 or 1.15
> 
> 5. At this time, remove ALL MFS filesystems from /etc/fstab.
>    They can be hand mounted after bootup or via a local rc
>    startup script.

	A better solution would be to increase the granularity of the file
system mounts so that the MFS systems were mounted after the entropy
gathering. There are a couple of reasons I changed the ordering on the two
reseeding attempts, one of the big ones was that for the "manual" reseed
(i.e., no entropy file) we want more parts of the system mounted so that
we have more potential entropy gathering tools. 

	Rest sounds good...

Doug
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