From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 16 17:45:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (peter1.corp.yahoo.com [208.48.107.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59FD37B533 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B558A1CD7; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:44:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" of "Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:14:04 PDT." <1529.961193644@localhost> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:44:57 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000617004457.B558A1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > Did you ran the Perl skript to create the hints file and > > then change your KERNEL config like this? > > Yep! The Perl script generates no output and my kernel config file > matches the requirements perfectly. Though, if you'll read the > subject line again, you'll see I used GENERIC for my test anyway. :) Err.. how did you run it? 'perl < MYKERNEL'? If you run 'perl MYKERNEL' it will generate nothing because I was kinda lame and didn't know how to do argument parsing. :-] To be sure, next time you boot, press space to get into the loader and do a 'show' - you should see your hints in the environment. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message