From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 09:05:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198D516A404 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 09:05:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC27713C45D for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 09:05:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55E120A7; Tue, 15 May 2007 11:05:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: 0.0/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on tim.des.no Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6A720A6; Tue, 15 May 2007 11:05:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 43C1B516E; Tue, 15 May 2007 11:05:41 +0200 (CEST) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=) To: "Matthew D. Fuller" References: <4640EAD0.3020502@mesd.k12.or.us> <4647D88D.5060404@functionalchaos.net> <86wszbx3tu.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4648835D.9020306@functionalchaos.net> <86sl9ywque.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070515064408.GK78897@over-yonder.net> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:05:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070515064408.GK78897@over-yonder.net> (Matthew D. Fuller's message of "Tue\, 15 May 2007 01\:44\:08 -0500") Message-ID: <861whiihi2.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, David Cramblett Subject: Re: System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:05:46 -0000 "Matthew D. Fuller" writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav writes: > > Beats me... I can't even remember what userconfig_script is > > supposed to do. Note that support for 5.2.1 ended on July 31, 2004. > Neither can I, but last weekend I upgraded some 4.x boxes to 5.x and > then 6.x, and with the 5.x loader they croaked before booting until I > took those userconfig_script_load lines out. Ooh, now I remember; userconfig was the old hardware configuration mechanism we had before device.hints. If you typed -c at the boot1 prompt, you would get an interactive display where you could assign IRQs and ports to devices. The script is basically a sequence of userconfig commands; you could extract it from kenv after an interactive boot and store it in a file which the loader would read the next time around. AFAIR, userconfig was axed between FreeBSD 3 and 4, so there would be no point in loading a userconfig script for a 5.x kernel. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no