* Philip Paeps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010907 17:24]: writing on the subject 'FreeBSD not
parsing rc.conf after make world'
| Hi all,
|
| I wonder what I might have done wrong to cause this. I've just CVSupped the
| latest stable sources last night, and today I built the world as follows:
|
| % cd /usr/src
| % make buildworld
| (loads of coffee, lunch, etc)
| % make buildkernel KERNCONF=FORTUNA
| (more coffee)
| % make installkernel KERNCONF=FORTUNA
| % reboot
| (single user)
|
| # fsck -p
| # mount -u /
| # mount -a -t ufs
| # swapon -a
|
| # make installworld
| # mergemaster
|
| I told it to install the new MAKEDEV, and merge most of the stuff in /etc, the
| sort of stuff I do everytime I make the world.
|
| # reboot
|
| When my machine booted, I was welcomed by (Amnesiac) before login, as opposed to
| the (fortuna.paeps.cx), which I'm used to. After a bit of testing around (a few
| changes in rc.conf, followed by reboots), I realised that the system just wasn't
| reading it on startup. Any ideas what might have caused this? Probably
| something silly I did, but I don't want to do it again, given the amount of
| coffee I have to consume to kill time waiting for it to let me play with it :-)
|
| Thanks for any help!
You did cp -Rp etc etc.old before doing mergemaster and doing the mergings, yes?
If so,
rm -rf etc
mv etc.old etc
reboot.
Then run mergemaster and choose to install all the new files (the temporary ones)
except for the files
that you have some customizations on.
I _never_ merge anything myself: I either install the temporary one or delete it. In
some cases I leave
for later to compare but rarely.
-Wash
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