From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 11:38:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cepheus.azstarnet.com (cepheus.azstarnet.com [169.197.56.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DECF14DFA for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 11:38:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sbcorey@azstarnet.com) Received: from azstarnet.com (dialup001ip287.tus.azstarnet.com [169.197.13.31]) by cepheus.azstarnet.com (8.9.3+blt.Beta0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24938; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 12:38:15 -0700 (MST) X-Sent-via: StarNet http://www.azstarnet.com/ Message-ID: <3878E3B8.25E3D6DB@azstarnet.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 12:38:32 -0700 From: Scott Corey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gerti@bitart.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Dmesg giving erroneous messages (Long Message) References: <3878DCC8.7C40FB57@azstarnet.com> <20000109192400.2786.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerd Knops wrote: > > Scott Corey wrote: > > I am having a heck of a time trying to figure out where I am getting > > these kernel "No such device" config calls from. Here is my dmesg: > > > > [...] > > > When you first installed FreeBSD and configured the generic kernel, the > configuration was stored in /boot/kernel.conf'. This file is applied on each > reboot. My guess is you have since build a lean customized kernel, which does > not contain devices anymore you don't have. So you can now use a mostly empty > kernel.conf. I don't know what the proper procedure is, but this worked for me: > > cd /boot > mv kernel.conf kernel.conf.orig > echo "q" >kernel.conf > > Gerd That was it Gerd, THANK YOU!!!! I CAN NOW QUIT BEATING MY HEAD AGAINST THE KEYBOARD.:^) Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message