From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 20 10:36:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freja.webgiro.com (10.0.29.209.212.in-addr.arpa [212.209.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5605514DDE; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 10:35:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 24E0018C2; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:35:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freja.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D1584990; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:35:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:35:38 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Dennis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel config setting not being saved In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20 Mar 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Dennis writes: > > Changes made at boot with the kernel config utility are not > > being saved in v3.1R. > > Which IMHO misses the point to some extent. It's true that changes are written out _during_ _installation_, and put in the wrong place. But then the poor user thinks that this will happen automagically each time he/she boots -c, which is simply not true. So, the errata should be corrected - it's not plainly wrong, but violates POLA. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message