From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 18:37:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawaii.conterra.com (hawaii.conterra.com [209.12.164.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D1D214BEF for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myself@conterra.com) Received: from dmaddox.conterra.com (myself@dmaddox.conterra.com [209.12.169.48]) by hawaii.conterra.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA17979; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:36:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (from myself@localhost) by dmaddox.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA01695; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:36:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from myself) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:36:58 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: "Bond, Jeffery" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Userconfig wont remember my settings in 3.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <19990224213658.A1658@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Bond, Jeffery on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:34:37AM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need to add a line like this: load -t userconfig_script /boot/kernel.conf to your /boot/boot.conf file. Put all your configuration commands in /boot/kernel.conf. The kernel.conf file will be read at each boot and you won't have to keep reentering the info over and over. On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:34:37AM -0000, Bond, Jeffery wrote: > Hello All, > > I've just upgraded to 3.1-RELEASE and I am having some trouble with the > kernel userconfig program. I disable all the unwanted devices, and tweak the > IRQ and IO of my net card, and the kernel then boots fine. Lovely! > > The problem is next time I boot (without running userconfig), all the > devices become enabled again, and the IRQ/IO settings are lost. This used to > work on 3.0-RELEASE and earlier (ie. the settings were remembered). What > gives? Where are the settings stored? > > This is the steps that I perform to run userconfig: > > The system starts with the BTX loader 1.0 (whatever that is, it's new). > Then I get a 10 second counter, which I interrupt by pressing a key > Then I enter 'boot -c' at the prompt (This took a bit of working out). > Lastly I type 'visual' when I get the userconfig prompt. > Up comes the familliar fullscreen userconfig program. > > Help appreciated, > > Cheers, > > Jeff Bond > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message