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Date:      Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:55:43 -0500
From:      "E. Jordan Bojar" <bojar@intersys.com>
To:        "Edwin Groothuis" <mavetju@chello.nl>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Startup Devices
Message-ID:  <01Feb22.125543est.115235@gateway.intersys.com>
References:  <01Feb22.115309est.115218@gateway.intersys.com> <01Feb22.122657est.115362@gateway.intersys.com> <01Feb22.123318est.115275@gateway.intersys.com> <01Feb22.124403est.115368@gateway.intersys.com>

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So remove the kernel.conf file entirely, or just empty it and leave it put?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edwin Groothuis" <mavetju@chello.nl>
To: "E. Jordan Bojar" <bojar@intersys.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: Startup Devices


> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:33:17PM -0500, E. Jordan Bojar wrote:
> > > Grep for a missing device in the files in /boot if I recall
correctly...
> >
> > OK, thanks.  I found these in kernel.conf.  Can you tell me why are only
> > devices I don't have listed there, but devices I do have are absent?
I'm a
> > bit confused as to what's actually being done here...
>
> Most probably: The first time you throw them all out of your
> kernel-config in the visual-config. Then you recompiled your kernel
> without the things you didn't have and rebooted. At that point the
> new kernel, with the old config, didn't know about the removed
> devices.
>
> Edwin
>
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