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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2007 11:05:41 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=)
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, David Cramblett <david@functionalchaos.net>
Subject:   Re: System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication
Message-ID:  <861whiihi2.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20070515064408.GK78897@over-yonder.net> (Matthew D. Fuller's message of "Tue\, 15 May 2007 01\:44\:08 -0500")
References:  <4640EAD0.3020502@mesd.k12.or.us> <4647D88D.5060404@functionalchaos.net> <86wszbx3tu.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4648835D.9020306@functionalchaos.net> <86sl9ywque.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070515064408.GK78897@over-yonder.net>

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"Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > Beats me...  I can't even remember what userconfig_script is
> > supposed to do.  Note that support for 5.2.1 ended on July 31, 2004.
> Neither can I, but last weekend I upgraded some 4.x boxes to 5.x and
> then 6.x, and with the 5.x loader they croaked before booting until I
> took those userconfig_script_load lines out.

Ooh, now I remember; userconfig was the old hardware configuration
mechanism we had before device.hints.  If you typed -c at the boot1
prompt, you would get an interactive display where you could assign IRQs
and ports to devices.

The script is basically a sequence of userconfig commands; you could
extract it from kenv after an interactive boot and store it in a file
which the loader would read the next time around.

AFAIR, userconfig was axed between FreeBSD 3 and 4, so there would be no
point in loading a userconfig script for a 5.x kernel.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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