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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:51:20 +0100
From:      Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com>
To:        J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        bill slaybaugh <slay3241@bright.net>, FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: newbie kernel question-
Message-ID:  <38109608.4F874132@csl.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910221701350.38665-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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J McKitrick wrote:
> 
> Actually, i would like to turn off all that probing as well, but i'm not
> quite sure what to do.  I know i can comment out various lines, but is
> there an easy way to tell from the log?  I have a laptop, and since it's
> already configured, i can't tell whether some of the stuff it is looking
> for is there or not.
Read this (and perhaps the whole section first).

http://www.uk.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html

But in a nutshell, I do

grep "not found" /var/run/dmesg.boot | lp
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
cp GENERIC MYHOSTNAME
vi MYHOSTNAME

and, armed with the printout from dmesg.boot
I identify all the lines that specify the
devices I don't have.

That done, quit vi and

config MYHOSTNAME
cd ../../compile/MYHOSTNAME
make depend && amke
make install
reboot

If there's a problem rebooting, you still
have /kernel.old and /kernel.GENERIC to boot
from.


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