ia64/154133: device.hints not updated == serial console lossage
George Michaelson <[email protected]>
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>Number: 154133 >Category: ia64 >Synopsis: device.hints not updated == serial console lossage >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ia64 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 19 04:50:07 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: George Michaelson >Release: 8.1 >Organization: APNIC >Environment: FreeBSD wattle.apnic.net 8.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 #1: Tue Jan 18 01:06:10 UTC 2011 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: So, you know you changed sio to uart. And, its not like devices.hints isn't simply copied in-place when you upgrade/install. Nobody edits it. So, why do you update an UPDATING file to say 'oh, we removed sio and replaced it with uart' when you could have added cp devices.hints /boot/ and be done with it? >How-To-Repeat: take a 7.2 system, upgrade to 8.1 following buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel and then try and do lights-out boot single user >Fix: update the devices.hints or.. emit a message to WARN us to update the devices.hints or make it easier to get into single-user on serial console in the absence of a working devices.hints. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"