On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 06:47:27 -0700 (PDT) 
 alanp <alanp@phcnet.com> wrote:

 > I have been running (and modifying) fairly old code on my system and one
 > day I decided to download -current source, but discovered that the stuff
 > in /sys/arch/MACHINE/conf had changed and was not compatible with the
 > version of config that I was using.

you need to rebuild and install a new config built from current sources.

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