From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 16 21:52:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6901537B8DB for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA02416; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC from today does not detect system console on my box In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:42:46 PDT." <20000617004246.DCA6B1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:52:25 -0700 Message-ID: <2413.961217545@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > IMHO, the hints are a machine property, not a per-kernel property. Setting > up a /boot/device.hints is (IMHO) a one-time task that never needs to be > done more than once, and (again IMHO) the 'make install' had damn well > better not mess with. But what if one does not exist? Wouldn't it be a good bootstrapping mechanism to create one for first-time use in the install rule? Not that it matters much in my case since there are apparently no "hints" for the perl script to generate from my config file. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message