From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 8: 0:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.Adl.USSR.net (digita1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5EF137B582 for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 08:00:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wabit@adl.ussr.net) Received: from localhost (wabit@localhost) by gw.Adl.USSR.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e46F0X403995; Sun, 7 May 2000 00:30:33 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 00:30:31 +0930 (CST) From: james To: Oscar Ricardo Silva Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/kernel.conf and "No such device" message In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000506093840.00a8cb30@mail.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG howdy Oscar, I deleted them from my /boot/kernel.conf file, and well... the system is still working :-) - involved scsi devices (mostly) , which the machien I've installed it on hasn't a hope of ever running........ regard james On Sat, 6 May 2000, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 09:43:52 -0500 > From: Oscar Ricardo Silva > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: /boot/kernel.conf and "No such device" message > > I recently installed version 4.0, updated it with cvsupit and then > recompiled the kernel. After I ran make world and rebooted, I ran into a > problem with ps not executing but looking through the mail archives, I > recompiled the kernel again and this fixed the problem. > > Although what's happening now is not very serious, it's annoying. After > recompiling and rebooting, I looked at the dmesg output and saw the following: > > real memory = 268369920 (262080K bytes) > config> di sn0 > No such device: sn0 > Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. > config> di lnc0 > No such device: lnc0 > Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. > etc, etc, etc. > > While digging around, I found the file /boot/kernel.conf that contained: > di sn0 > di lnc0 > di le0 > di ie0 > di fe0 > di ed0 > di cs0 > di bt0 > di aic0 > di adv0 > q > > Does kernel.conf need to have this text in it? Is this file > necessary? Can I remove the lines (none of these devices are in my > computer) without problems? > > > TIA > > Oscar > > > > > "Don't believe the hype" > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message