From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 19:27:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19617 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kstreet.interlog.com (kstreet.interlog.com [198.53.146.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19515 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:26:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kws@kstreet.interlog.com) Received: (from kws@localhost) by kstreet.interlog.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) id WAA00587; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:24:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kws) From: Kevin Street MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:24:59 -0400 (EDT) To: Doug White Cc: jm7996@devrycols.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel.config In-Reply-To: References: <87yarf6a6j.fsf@kstreet.interlog.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13831.2314.69074.797302@kstreet.interlog.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White writes: >On 19 Sep 1998, Kevin Street wrote: > >> "James A. Mutter" writes: > >> > I've got a PnP sound card that is _not_ automatically recognized by the >> > kernel. After installing a new kernel I have to manually reenter the >> > parameters for the card. I could have sworn that I saw somewhere that the >> > /kernel.config file could 'do this for me' - so to speak. >> > >> I believe you also need to have the right options in your kernel: >> options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor >> options USERCONFIG_BOOT #imply -c and parse info area >> options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor >> >> I think it's the USERCONFIG_BOOT that makes it read kernel.config > >No, USERCONFIG_BOOT pops up the screen that asks you if you want to >configure the kernel, like it does on the boot floppy. Well, I don't get that screen on my machine unless I use -c at boot time. Until I added USERCONFIG_BOOT (I already had the other two) it ignored my kernel.config, but with the option it configs my sound card automatically and carries on booting. I'm on -current if that makes a difference. -- Kevin Street street@iName.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message