From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 18:41:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mk-smarthost-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.112.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37B837B405 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:41:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [62.64.229.224] (helo=cream.org) by mk-smarthost-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16apHk-000KOj-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 02:36:41 +0000 Message-ID: <3C69D274.6070802@cream.org> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 02:41:56 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Pekka Samuli Laine , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Strange messages during boot process References: <01C1B425.54CB8C20@212-246-4-106.catv.tpo.fi> <2ezo2etj17.o2e@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > >It's as safe as your editing. The things are only useful for >devices that are compiled into the kernel but which you want to >disable. The commands have trouble disabling device code that is >not in the kernel. > The commands were put there by the configuration editor that appears when you boot into the installation sequence for the first time. They are used to disable devices in the GENERIC kernel. Now that you have compiled your own kernel (yay!) you can safely remove them from your /boot/kernel.conf Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message