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Extend the message in UPDATING on the sio(4) -> uart(4) change.

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It turns out I forgot to mention that people really need to make sure
their hints are up to date if they are updating a system through the
serial console.

Requested by:	gavin
Reviewed by:	gavin
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Ed Schouten 2008-08-18 10:38:16 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
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@ -33,6 +33,17 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.x IS SLOW:
instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to
use the new device names.
When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update
/boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel.
If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints
at the loader prompt:
set hint.uart.0.at="isa"
set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
set hint.uart.0.irq="4"
boot -s
20080609:
The gpt(8) utility has been removed. Use gpart(8) to partition
disks instead.