Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:13:25 -0500
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com>
Message-ID: <20121109181325.ga19...@panix.com>
| Did you install by upgrading?
No, it is a fresh install off an install CD. It is on a virtualbox
running under Windows 7 (one day that really is going away, I detest
Windows...) so I can trivially do new installs, and have done several.
| We do need to find a way to ensure that upgrades result in boot.conf
| files which will automatically load entropy if possible.
I assume you mean /boot.cfg?
It has ...
menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd
menu=Boot single user:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd -s
menu=Disable ACPI:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd -2
menu=Disable ACPI and SMP:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot netbsd -12
menu=Drop to boot prompt:prompt
(plus the default, timeout etc settings) default=1, which is the
"boot normally" which has the rndseed stuff in it, yet it still said
/netbsd: cprng kernel: WARNING pseudorandom rekeying.
when it booted (for me, unlike Iain, I think just once - but that just
means, I assume, that I am not consuming as many random bits).
And actually looking carefully at /var/log/messages & its timestamps,
(rather than just the console without them) it seems as if it happens
a couple of hours after the system was booted.
kre
