Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:47:05 -0700 (PDT) From: mike@hyperreal.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmesg Message-ID: <19990620214706.14955.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990620151833.14320f-100000@cygnus.rush.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Jun 20, 1999 03:20:40 pm"
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Tetsuya Watanabe wrote:
> > Can someone explain the meaning of "di" and "q" in the following dmesg?
> > config> di zp0
> > No such device: zp0
> > Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help.
>
> they are the abbreviated commands you can use in the kernel config
> cli:
And the reason they are showing up, as was just pointed out to me
yesterday, is because when you install FreeBSD 3.2, you get the GENERIC
kernel with many device drivers compiled in.
The sysinstall utility lets you disable all of those that you don't need,
so there are no conflicts. But this doesn't change the kernel at all; it
just changes the conf files in /boot.
When Mr. Watanabe compiled a new kernel, he removed those drivers he
didn't need, but didn't remove the disable ("di") commands from
/boot/kernel.conf.
The kernel configuration section of the FreeBSD Handbook should be updated
to reflect this info. It should also be more specific about what kinds of
devices do and don't need to be created with mknod.
- Mike
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