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Date:      Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:34:49 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (hackers)
Cc:        apesa@bellsouth.net
Subject:   Re: Visual kernel config
Message-ID:  <19970607143449.AA44700@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <3398F3DB.833@bellsouth.net>; from Arthur Pesa on Jun 7, 1997 01:38:35 -0400
References:  <3398F3DB.833@bellsouth.net>

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As Arthur Pesa wrote:

>  If you use the -c at boot and go to visual kernel config, are you
> editing your own compiled "made" kernel or do you see the GENERIC
> kernel.

You are editing the main memory.  If you continue with multi-user
boot, dset(8) (run from /etc/rc) tries to save back your changes into
the kernel image, as indicated by the sysctl variable kern.bootfile.

> I ask becase I "made" my own kernel, I then proceeded to configure pppd.
> After the reboot, I lost my ep0 (3Com) ether?

Did you also `make install' it?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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