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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:30:43 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Cc:        sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: kern/9670: kernel config at boot time via -c gives save option but looses settings
Message-ID:  <19990315093043.A64525@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903150201070.1677-100000@freja.webgiro.com>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:03:07AM %2B0100
References:  <19990314180852.A7460@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903150201070.1677-100000@freja.webgiro.com>

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On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:03:07AM +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> > o  Kernel change information is not saved in the new kernel, even
> >    though this is claimed to work in the docs.
> > 
> > Fix: The change information is being written out, in fact, but to the
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Hmm... Really? What writes this info?
> 
> > I can't get your fix to work.
> > 
> > I've made `boot -c' changes, and `sysctl machdep.uc_devlist' produces
> > non-null output, but the /kernel.config is empty.
> > 
> > Any clue?
> 
> Either create /kernel.config manually, or run kget (available in
> src/release/picobsd/tinyware/kget).
> 
> Andrzej Bialecki
> 

Yes, I know, it's your child.
And in -CURRENT it is available as src/sbin/kget/.

I just worried about ERRATA - it is incorrect!!!
`boot -c' changes are not written into /kernel.config.

In 2.2.8 boot2 worried about reading /kernel.config,
and dset worried about writing /kernel.config.

Thanks,
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