From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 4 16:32:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wizzards.net (mail.wmni.net [209.40.64.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2F31517B for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 16:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfox@wizzards.net) Received: from localhost (jfox@localhost) by mail.wizzards.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA08582 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 16:33:00 -0700 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 16:32:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "John J. Fox IV" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Need documentation RE: /boot/kernel.conf 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 Hi, I just installed FreeBSD (for the first time) over the weekend. I really like it. There's *lots* to learn, but that's all part of the fun. I am having a problem -- though -- trying to understand the purpose and syntax of "/boot/kernel.conf". Man pages, and web/faq/handbook searches have all failed me as I try to unearth a document that will explain this to me. Someone on EFNet #FreeBSD pointed me to "/boot/defaults/loader.conf" which references "/boot/kernel.conf", but doesn't explain it. I didn't want to make a pest of myself so I decided I'd post my question here. FWIW, here is a snippet from "/boot/kernel.conf": ----------- di psm0 di zp0 di ze0 di adv0 en ppc0 ir ppc0 7 f ppc0 0x40 q ----------- Thank you, John jfox@wizzards.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message