If memory serves me right, Mark Murray wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" writes: > > At some point, please remember the case of new installs. I've been > > trying to bootstrap a laptop to a new CURRENT from CD-ROM and I had > > newfs [1] hanging on me because of this problem. > > > > I was able to kickstart the random device from an emergency holographic > > shell but this *needs* to be fixed before 5.3. > > Hey Bruce > > Yeah, I think I've got this. Harvesting is now turned ON by default. > By the time the user has got to newfs, the secure reseed should have > happened. Please let me know if this isn't the case. Thanks, Mark! I can confirm that newfs now works shortly after a boot to single-user mode. Might take me awhile to get to a situation where I'm doing sysinstall on a new machine again, but I'd expect that we wouldn't see any problems. (If I had a scratch machine, I'd test it now!) Sorry if I was a little blunt in my earlier email...this was the latest (and fortunately last) issue in a long chain of problems that was keeping me from: 1) burning a 5.2-CURRENT install CD-ROM and 2) using it to rebuild my ThinkPad. Cheers, Bruce.
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