From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 9:53:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB4714D9A for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:53:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA26761; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:40:46 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <38109608.4F874132@csl.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:51:20 +0100 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J McKitrick Cc: bill slaybaugh , FreeBSD List Subject: Re: newbie kernel question- References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message