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From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: device.hints not updated == serial console lossage
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>Number:         154133
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       [build] device.hints not updated on upgrade == serial console lossage
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>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:  Sun Jan 23 21:39:50 UTC 2011
>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     root@wattle.apnic.net:/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:

From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org,
 freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ia64/154133: device.hints not updated == serial console lossage
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:51:44 +1000

 Sorry. should be amd64. my bad.
 
 -G
 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ia64->freebsd-amd64 
Responsible-Changed-By: marcel 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Jan 19 17:36:58 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
s/ia64/amd64/g 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=154133 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-amd64->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Jan 23 21:38:56 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
reclassify. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=154133 
>Unformatted:
