From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 15 16:16:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00400 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:16:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00351 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-32.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.32]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA09947; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 11:15:47 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808152315.LAA09947@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: djv@bedford.net Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 11:16:04 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: new kernel won't boot Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808151356.JAA10390@lucy.bedford.net> References: <199808151114.XAA05608@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> from Dan Langille at "Aug 15, 98 11:14:43 pm" X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Aug 98, at 9:56, CyberPeasant wrote: > Try again, being very picky about disabling devices... i.e. stop > at the boot: prompt and give it whatever switch that is to enter > the "disabler". Found it (with help from an email from another helper). I just tried -c at the boot prompt. And it did get me into UserConfig, from which I disabled all the conflicts. Cheers. Next step: remove those unused devices from the kernel. thanks. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message