From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 15 23:45:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E69115188 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 23:44:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10MoWU-0000dy-0A; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:44:22 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id HAA01856; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:43:54 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00936; Tue, 16 Mar 99 07:43:51 GMT Message-Id: <36EE0BA1.1906680E@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:43:29 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Landauer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.8 boot still wants sysinstall - answered References: <199903160211.SAA02628@chuck.aero.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Landauer wrote: > > I recently asked why the sysinstall menu came up when i booted 2.2.8, > and i now see in my kernel configuration file that i enabled > USERCONFIG_BOOT > > which i presume causes exactly that behavior No. USERCONFIG_BOOT causes the kernel to read /kernel.config at boot time, and execute any commands in there as if you had done ``boot -c'' and typed them manually. It even echoes them to the screen the way you would type them in. You could check if there is anything in /kernel.config (I don't know if there is a boot option to start sysinstall). > > oops > > more later, > cal > > Dr. Christopher Landauer > Aerospace Integration Science Center > The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214 > P.O.Box 92957 > Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA > e-mail: cal@aero.org > Phone: +1 (310) 336-1361 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message