Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 03:26:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to PnP without booting -c?gy Message-ID: <199808310126.DAA08402@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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I wrote in list.freebsd-multimedia: > Luigi Rizzo wrote in list.freebsd-multimedia: > > > Shouldn't it be possible to take the userconfig data (in > > > particular, the PnP configuration data) and put it into a > > > different kernel file? I experimented with dset and "sysctl > > > -w kern.bootfile=/kernel.new" and things like that, but it > > > didn't work. > > > > not sure because the symbol tables are also read from the new file i think. > > You'd need to tel "dset" that the pnp config is in the first file, but > > must be written in the second one. Or, add a couple of options to dset, > > one to fetch the pnp info from one kernel, the other one to write the > > previously dumped data into another kernel. Not hard at all, if you > > look at the #ifdef PNP in dset.c > > Thanks for the hint, I will look at that. So I did look at it, and I hacked an extension into dset.c so I can write the config info to a different kernel file. It works. :) Thanks again for the hint, Luigi. My problem is solved. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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