Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:43:28 -0700 From: "Garhan Attebury" <firebug@eoni.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: kernel.conf (contains di commands for devices that don't exist) Message-ID: <KEEDIEGLGEOLABJMGELIGEFPCAAA.firebug@eoni.com>
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I'm a new FreeBSD user (RELEASE 4.0) and I just built a custom kernel for the first time this morning. I removed various devices which I didn't need, compiled it, and booted with it. As far as the actual kernel build goes, everything went fine. However, I noticed that there were a lot of the following errors when I rebooted... config> di sio1 Invalid command or syntax. Type '?' for help. This happened for all the devices I took out of the kernel (serial, ISA Ethernet, and SCSI stuff --- the device nodes aren't in /dev anymore, so I get errors). Being as the kernel was working just fine and dandy, I figured these commands were from one of the conf files. After a while, I found all these commands were what was in /boot/kernel.conf. I also found that /boot/defaults/loader.conf was what was calling the kernel.conf. I then found the userconfig_script_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf, and set that to "NO". This fixed all the config> di errors I was getting. My questions are as follows: What created kernel.conf in the first place? I was thinking that the Kernel Configuration Utility (the visual mode interface) was what created/modified it, but when I tried saving the configuration from the utility, kernel.conf didn't change. I read some things which also suggest this is true, and if it is, is there a way to get the utility to 'update' kernel.conf and only include info for the devices in the kernel? Or did I just miss some step in configuring a custom kernel somewhere? Also, if there isn't anything that creates/modifies kernel.conf, is there anything wrong with what I did (set userconfig_script_load="NO") or removing all the "di [device] entries from kernel.conf? Thanks for any help on this in advance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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