From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 8 02:26:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA06361 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 02:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA06351 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 02:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp id AA11121; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:25:23 +0900 Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id SAA17331; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:31:34 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199710080931.SAA17331@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Andreas Klemm Cc: Robert Sowders , stable@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.2.5-BETA, /boot.help is missing -Reply In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 08:50:12 +0200." <19971008085012.51101@klemm.gtn.com> References: <19971008085012.51101@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 18:31:33 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 11:43:21PM -0700, Robert Sowders wrote: >> after boot run dmesg and see if psm0 is disabled. >> if it is, look in your kernel source and remove the line disable from >> the device psm0 line. then remake your kernel and reboot. >> it should be there now at /dev/psm0. >> kernel source at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > >If that should be the case, could we then remove the disable token >entirely ? Or is disable necessary to be able to disable the driver >when autoprobing wasn't successfull ? The keyword "disable" means "do not probe the device". The probe routine of the device driver will not be called. You will see psm0: disabled, not probed in this case. If you don't put this keyword in your kernel configuration file, or you enable this device driver in the UserConfig, the kernel will call the probe routine in the device driver. If the device driver reports that device probe has failed, the kernel wont' attach the device. This action is alwasy taken if the probe fails. The keyword "disable" has nothing to do with this. You will see psm0: not found at 0x60 in this case. You may also see additional error messages. Please examine the boot message, or the output from `dmesg' to see which is the case with your system. Kazu