Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 01:08:23 +0200 (MESZ) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de> To: stephane@cybersurf.net (Stephane Raimbault) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Configuration Question. Message-ID: <199710172308.BAA01009@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <01bcdb32$245db520$aa6ebace@stephane.cybersurf.net> from Stephane Raimbault at "Oct 17, 97 01:23:26 pm"
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It was Stephane Raimbault who wrote: > I have been creating myself a Kernel for my syste and I can not find what the following lines are for. They are not mentioned in the HandBook. Could someone tell me what some of these are for. I have a good idea what are some of these but I am trying to determine if I need them or not. > options FAILSAFE #Be conservative If you have an NCR53C810 controller and a scsi hard disk which claims to support tagged commands, but doesn't (e.g. HP C3725S) or if you have a CDROM that doesn't support synchronous transfers (e.g. NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:501), you'll need it. You can grep through the kernel sources, in case I forgot s.th. > options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor If you want to be able to use the `-c' option at the boot prompt to edit your hardware config on a command-line basis. (Enabling/disabling of devices, changing ports etc.) > options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor If you like the menu driven configuration utility. > controller eisa0 If you have an EISA bus system. Not needed on PCI/ISA systems. > options KTRACE #kernel tracing As the comment in LINT says: KTRACE enables the system-call tracing facility ktrace(2). It doesn't hurt. > Thank you for your time, > Stephane Raimbault You're welcome, Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de
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