5.2-RELEASE TODO -2

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 1 21:52:29 PDT 2003


Scott Long wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Nicole wrote:
>>
>>> In my 5.1 system I see this in my .hints file. So I assume I edit it
>>> there or do I treat it like a defaults file and import and change in
>>> in my config file?
>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't say anything about your hints file. You need to edit your
>> kernel config file, build a new kernel, then reboot. If any of that is
>> confusing to you, please follow up on freebsd-questions, since people
>> running -current are assumed to have that base of knowledge.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Doug
>>
> 
> Device flags are not specified in the kernel config anymore unless you
> try really, really hard.  /etc/device.hints is the correct place to
> adjust this flag.
> 
> Scott
> 

Of course I mean '/boot/device.hints' =-)

Scott



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