From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 14 19:57:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA11376 for current-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 19:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA11371 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 19:56:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA15368; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:56:25 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604150326.MAA15368@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Panic during boot To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:56:25 +0930 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr, se@zpr.uni-koeln.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Apr 14, 96 09:19:46 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marc G. Fournier stands accused of saying: > > > > I have identified my problem: using the -n flag with config is not a > > > good idea :-/ > > > > Tell this to Garrett - he still beats me up over the default behavior! :-) > > > > Wait, what's wrong with -n?? Except for the other day, I always > use -gn when I reconfig the sources before compiling, so that I don't lose > my version #. It would have been nice if you mentioned this back when you were talking about other problems you were having. -n is _evil_. If any changes have been made to your kernel sources that you are not _intimately_ familiar with, (ie. you have resupped), then you _must_must_must_ not use -n. Dependencies aren't enough to protect you from losing like this. I suspect this _may_ be part of your problem. > Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[