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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200
From:      Oren Sarig <sarig@bezeqint.net>
To:        Gene Harris <zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com>, J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stop boot from looking for devices
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.19991027215150.0079ca10@mail.bezeqint.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910271434060.406-100000@tetron03.tetronsoft ware.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910271928320.90915-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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The menu in which you can disable devices basically just scans what modules
you have compiled into your kernel, and lets you disable them. When it asks
you if you want to save the configuration, if you click yes, it creates a
small boot script that basically is composed of "di <devicename>"s. It
could look like this:

di wdc1
di sio0
di sio1
q

I think it is somewhere in the boot directory. Anyways, if you recompiled
your kernel without some of these devices, when the script attempts to
disable them, it gives an error that the device was not found since it is
no longer in the kernel. If you want to get rid of these annoying messages,
just remove the "di" lines from the script. Find the script using grep (I
think `grep "di " *`, though I can't be sure... I'm a newbie myself :))

--
Oren Sarig
sarig@isdn.net.il

At 14:37 27/10/99 -0500, Gene Harris wrote:
>No, I don't have this file either.  I am running a clean
>install of 3.3-STABLE, without any upgrades.  My boot
>directory has some loader.* files and that is about it.
>This was just a curiosity projects, so I think it is time
>for me to give it up until I know more about how FreeBSD
>boots.
>
>Gene
>
>On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote:
>
>>  try /boot/kernel.conf
>>  
>>  -jm




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