From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 9: 3:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glitch.crosswinds.net (glitch.crosswinds.net [209.208.163.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E2E37B657 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:03:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from chucky.my.domain ([195.110.170.23]) by glitch.crosswinds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA74907; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:03:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john253@crosswinds.net) From: John Murphy To: vdrifter@ocis.ocis.net (John F Cuzzola) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel config at boot up Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:03:39 +0000 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: john253@crosswinds.net Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John F Cuzzola wrote: > >Hello Everyone, >On my FreeBSD 4.2 box I'm trying to configure the kernel. Specifically I >need to specify my NICs IRQ/IO in order to get it to work. I interrupt = the >normal loader boot process then type: > >boot -c kernel > >then > >>visual > >In the visual configuration editor I make the changes, select 'Q'uit and >answer 'Y'es to save changes. Everything works until I reboot the system >and find out that none of the kernel settings changes were saved. What >gives? Any input would be appreciated. Please respond directly to this >email address as I'm not subscribed to the questions list. > Yes, I remember expecting to make permanent changes this way. As you have discovered, the changes are effective only until you re-boot. You may be able to make some simple changes to /boot/kernel.conf, otherwise you'll have to compile and install a customised kernel or re-install. HTH John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message