Bug 21051
| Summary: | Updating 4.1-RELEASE to -current fails because document is insufficient | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | yu <yu> |
| Component: | kern | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 4.1-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
> While updating 4.1-RELEASE to -current according to '/usr/src/UPDATING',
> I got following message in 'make installkernel ...':
> You must activate /boot/device.hints in loader.conf.
In src/UPDATING, you can find:
20000825:
/boot/device.hints is now required for installkernel to
succeed. You should copy GENERIC.hints for your architecture
into /boot/device.hints. If and only if you compile hints
into your kernel, then this file may be empty. Please note,
if you have an empty or missing /boot/device.hints file and
you neglected to compile hints into your kernel, no boot
messages will appear after the boot loader tries to start the
kernel.
I think 5-current user *must* read src/UPDATING before doing
anything. Is it not sufficient description for you? If not, what's
missing?
-- -
Makoto `MAR' Matsushita
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Waiting submitter's feedback. > I think 5-current user *must* read src/UPDATING before doing > anything. Is it not sufficient description for you? If not, what's > missing? I don't have the exact environment now, but I'm afraid I was looking old "src/UPDATING" at that time. In "src/UPDATING" of revision 1.108(changed at Tue Aug 29 06:35:46 2000 UTC), this probrem was already fixed. Best regards, -- IMAMURA Tomoaki // yu@installer.org State Changed From-To: feedback->closed The original PR submitter agrees that this problem was already fixed. Thank you. |
While updating 4.1-RELEASE to -current according to '/usr/src/UPDATING', I got following message in 'make installkernel ...': You must activate /boot/device.hints in loader.conf. Fix: Updaters should type '/usr/src/sys/boot; make install' before installkernel rather than previous 'cp src/sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints' command, I think.