hm, how to recover from a fscked-up device.hints?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> I just created myself an interesting challenge:
> 
>  - I basically replaced my /boot/device.hints with a nonsensical one (don't
>    ask), it is not a device.hints file at all.
> 
> How does one recover from that?  Booting kernel.old does not fix it for
> obvious reasons..

The device hints show up as environment variables in the loader (use
show). You can remove the ones that conflict (use unset) and add the
ones that are missing (use set).

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