Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:06:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> Cc: Christopher Bush <bushroot3@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: I'm having some trouble with kernel configuration Message-ID: <20010620110512.X10696-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIMEMDCMAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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> --- > # ATA and ATAPI devices > #device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 > #device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 > device ata > device atadisk # ATA disk drives > device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives > --- > You might want to try uncommenting the "ata0" and "ata1" lines. Especially since they're the actual controllers. Without them compiled in, you won't detect your ATA devices. If you don't have any ATA/IDE devices, you can comment out all those lines, and you'll be fine. Joe Clarke > > These comments are purely based on personal experience - I don't wish to > pretend to understand exactly why some of these inter-dependencies exist. > > I hope you have more success. FreeBSD is my personal choice - give it some > more time. :) > > Patrick. > > -----Original Message----- > From:Christopher Bush > Sent: 20 June 2001 12:40 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: I'm having some trouble with kernel configuration > > I seem to be doing something wrong while configuring my kernel. I've > tried a few IRC rooms, but they keep telling me I should read the > handbook. While the handbook seems to be a good source of information, > either I must be illiterate, or what I'm looking for isn't there. I can > configure the kernel. I don't get any error messages when I do. > However, when I do a make depend, it gives me an error. I'm including > my kernel configuration in hopes that maybe you'll be able to explain to > me what I'm doing wrong. This is the first time I've tried to do > configure and compile a kernel under FreeBSD. I've done so under Linux > several times. I thought I'd try your OS, but from what I've seen in > IRC, I'm supposed to be born with an understanding of it. Anyway, > thanks in advance for any help. I appreciate it. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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