"Simon L. Nielsen" writes: > > Yeah. Part of the startup does a "kickstart" of the device by writing > > garbage to it. I wonder why it didn't do that this time. Is your > > /etc/rc* completely up to date? What is in your rc.conf? > > The problem is that I use initdiskless which is run as the very first > rc.d script, even before initrandom. It has to run first since /etc is > replaced by that script. Hmmm. Methinks initdiskless should depend on initrandom. > As a workaround I added the hack from initrandom (ps -fauxww; sysctl... > >/dev/random and so on) and the system boots again. So I'm not really > sure if this should be fixed in rc.d or in the kernel. Short term; rc.d. Long term, kernel might not be a bad idea. There are some very nasty initial conditions to fix first. The device MUST start up secure, for one. > Is it intentional that random(4) isn't seeded by the kernel itself now? Unintentional, but hard to fix. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaHReceived on Mon Apr 12 2004 - 13:20:21 UTC
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