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Date:      29 Dec 1999 10:12:32 -0500
From:      Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ed0 recognized as ed1
Message-ID:  <87u2l1ixwf.fsf@main.wgaf.net>
In-Reply-To: Annelise Anderson's message of "Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:47:39 -0800 (PST)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912290030450.28631-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> writes:

> And it seems to vary with the version of FreeBSD or how recent the
> -current sources are.  My September 15 -current did ed1 but by 
> December 9 it was back to ed0.

I cvsup sources every day. The kernel was rebuilt yesterday. ;^(

Will it make sense to file a bug report or is it a well-known problem?

> This is a problem on a remote reboot, because if rc.conf is wrong, the
> network won't come up.  And then you can't get to the machine to fix
> it.

Exactly. I had to drag my box out of the closet and attatch a monitor
to it to find out what had happened.

> I think you'd find, though, that if you compiled the kernel with ed1
> instead of ed0, your card would turn up with ed2.

This is exactly the case.

Annelise, thanks for your reply!
-- 
Arcady Genkin                                http://wgaf.dyndns.org
"'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who
loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)


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