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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:41:50 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: [ alpha ] supplement to beast becoming available (fwd)
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:27:50PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> following up further on this- make sure you also don't have hints
> set by the loader. That can also be bad if they get duplicated.

Actually this was not Peter's suggestion.  His suggestion was don't have
the kernel providing hints.  Rather let the loader do it.  For GENERIC
this means either rm'ing GENERIC.hints, or cp /dev/null GENERIC.hints
(will survive a `cvs up' better than rm'ing the hints).
 
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