From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 20 14:47:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF76B153AC for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 14956 invoked by uid 12); 20 Jun 1999 21:47:06 -0000 Message-ID: <19990620214706.14955.qmail@hyperreal.org> From: mike@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: dmesg In-Reply-To: from Alfred Perlstein at "Jun 20, 1999 03:20:40 pm" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:47:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL51 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Tetsuya Watanabe wrote: > > Can someone explain the meaning of "di" and "q" in the following dmesg? > > config> di zp0 > > No such device: zp0 > > Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. > > they are the abbreviated commands you can use in the kernel config > cli: And the reason they are showing up, as was just pointed out to me yesterday, is because when you install FreeBSD 3.2, you get the GENERIC kernel with many device drivers compiled in. The sysinstall utility lets you disable all of those that you don't need, so there are no conflicts. But this doesn't change the kernel at all; it just changes the conf files in /boot. When Mr. Watanabe compiled a new kernel, he removed those drivers he didn't need, but didn't remove the disable ("di") commands from /boot/kernel.conf. The kernel configuration section of the FreeBSD Handbook should be updated to reflect this info. It should also be more specific about what kinds of devices do and don't need to be created with mknod. - Mike ______________________________________________________________________ Mike Brown / Hyperreal | Director, Hyperreal Music Archive PO Box 61334 | http://www.hyperreal.org/music/ Denver CO 80206-8334 USA | Software Engineer, www.netIgnite.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message