From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 23:38: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D06C37B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9A243E6E for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:38:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g866c2ve067940; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:38:02 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g866c2Ci067939; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:38:02 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:38:02 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rebuilt the kernel... and now some issues... Message-ID: <20020906063802.GB67722@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020906052713.GA67722@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020906055209.17459.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020906055209.17459.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:52:09PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > --- Jonathan Chen wrote: > > Since you've rebuilt your kernel, some devices don't exist anymore. > > Your /boot/kernel.conf is now out of date, and can be removed. > > what's the purpose of this file? so deleting it will not cause any > catastrophic problems? You can have a look at it. It's a just text file with commands to disable devices in the kernel. It was probably created when you first installed FreeBSD, and you went thru' the config-panel, disabling devices that you didn't have on your box. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message