From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 11:12:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7997B14BD2 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:12:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00509; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:13:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:13:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Gene Harris To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop boot from looking for devices In-Reply-To: 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 I appreciate the second ide entry. Unfortunately, I have two cd's hanging out on that controller. So I cannot remove it. Gene On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, J McKitrick mumbled: > I just handled this myself. Look at the output from dmesg, and then go > into the kernel config file: > /sys/i386/conf/KERNEL, or GENERIC > and look for references to the devices not found. Then comment them out. > I also have the complete freebsd. My machine used to pause for while > looking for a second IDE drive, but i followed the kernel config chapter, > found the entry and removed it. That takes about 5-10 seconds off the > boot time. > > -jm > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message