From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 12:52:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-a.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96C014D9A for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:52:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sarig@bezeqint.net) Received: from default (pri-ra-1152.isdn.net.il) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.07.30.00.05.p8) with SMTP id <0FKA00DRI1UYX9@mail.bezeqint.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:52:11 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:51:50 +0200 From: Oren Sarig Subject: Re: Stop boot from looking for devices In-reply-to: X-Sender: sarig@mail.bezeqint.net To: Gene Harris , J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3.0.6.32.19991027215150.0079ca10@mail.bezeqint.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The menu in which you can disable devices basically just scans what modules you have compiled into your kernel, and lets you disable them. When it asks you if you want to save the configuration, if you click yes, it creates a small boot script that basically is composed of "di "s. It could look like this: di wdc1 di sio0 di sio1 q I think it is somewhere in the boot directory. Anyways, if you recompiled your kernel without some of these devices, when the script attempts to disable them, it gives an error that the device was not found since it is no longer in the kernel. If you want to get rid of these annoying messages, just remove the "di" lines from the script. Find the script using grep (I think `grep "di " *`, though I can't be sure... I'm a newbie myself :)) -- Oren Sarig sarig@isdn.net.il At 14:37 27/10/99 -0500, Gene Harris wrote: >No, I don't have this file either. I am running a clean >install of 3.3-STABLE, without any upgrades. My boot >directory has some loader.* files and that is about it. >This was just a curiosity projects, so I think it is time >for me to give it up until I know more about how FreeBSD >boots. > >Gene > >On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > >> try /boot/kernel.conf >> >> -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message