From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 6 00:12:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23449 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:12:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23440 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:12:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA07216; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:41:53 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA21231; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:41:53 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980206184148.21054@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:41:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: knowtree@aloha.com, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Boot message flood in 3.0 current -- bad? References: <34DAC3CA.4F31@aloha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34DAC3CA.4F31@aloha.com>; from Gary Dunn on Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 10:03:37PM -1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 5 February 1998 at 22:03:37 -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: > When my system boots, a long list of extra-bright messages about things > not found scrolls by. Odd disk drives and other hardware stuff. None of > it seems incorrect, but is customary to edit out the offending code? This is normal. Your kernel supports a lot of hardware you don't have, and it's just telling you what it found and what it didn't find. If you don't like it, you can build a custom kernel which supports exactly what you have. It will have the additional advantage of being fractionally smaller and booting faster (because it doesn't spend time looking for devices which aren't there). Greg