Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:58:54 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dev/random Message-ID: <20040420035854.GA800@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <200404190758.i3J7wwIn082011@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <200404160400.i3G40F3q054270@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> <200404190758.i3J7wwIn082011@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] If memory serves me right, Mark Murray wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" writes: > > At some point, please remember the case of new installs. I've been > > trying to bootstrap a laptop to a new CURRENT from CD-ROM and I had > > newfs [1] hanging on me because of this problem. > > > > I was able to kickstart the random device from an emergency holographic > > shell but this *needs* to be fixed before 5.3. > > Hey Bruce > > Yeah, I think I've got this. Harvesting is now turned ON by default. > By the time the user has got to newfs, the secure reseed should have > happened. Please let me know if this isn't the case. Thanks, Mark! I can confirm that newfs now works shortly after a boot to single-user mode. Might take me awhile to get to a situation where I'm doing sysinstall on a new machine again, but I'd expect that we wouldn't see any problems. (If I had a scratch machine, I'd test it now!) Sorry if I was a little blunt in my earlier email...this was the latest (and fortunately last) issue in a long chain of problems that was keeping me from: 1) burning a 5.2-CURRENT install CD-ROM and 2) using it to rebuild my ThinkPad. Cheers, Bruce. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhJ/+2MoxcVugUsMRAilUAKCddHw5U/Z3g+RTBkxnvk7hIgti6ACg6UeB G7VigpXkQ4K4ITIIqO77eic= =sOJa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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