From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 13:46:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from walnut.readington.com (walnut.readington.com [207.207.198.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF4A14ED8 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:46:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrismar@readington.com) Received: from localhost (chrismar@localhost) by walnut.readington.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19306; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:40:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chrismar@readington.com) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:40:52 -0500 (EST) From: Chris To: "Donald J . Maddox" Cc: Jeff Ehrenkrantz , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Boot -c in 3.1-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <19990301172745.A1281@dmaddox.conterra.com> Message-ID: Webpage: http://www.weirdo.net/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Call me crazy, but this doesn't seem to work. I must have tried this 5 times last night and I still had to boot -c and enter everything by hand. Chris On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > In aout systems, the 'dset' program was used to write configuration > changes directly to the aout kernel image. It doesn't work with ELF > kernels. A utility called 'kget' was recently added to the -current > tree to do something similar for ELF kernels, but that doesn't help > you much... > > You need to create a /boot/boot.config file that contains at least > these lines: > > load kernel > load -t userconfig_script /boot/kernel.conf > > Then, you need to create a /boot/kernel.conf file that contains the > commands that you would normally type at the config> prompt. > > On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:52:32AM -0500, Jeff Ehrenkrantz wrote: > > Hello All, > > I recently Installed 3.1 Release on a drive having the old boot blocks. > > Thus it is necessary for me to do a "boot -c" to tweak an Ethernet isa > > address. Although the system does work after this tweak. The change does > > not get stored. This system is a minimum hard drive/system install so I > > don't have the space to compile a custom kernel at this point. Can someone > > tell me why the changes don't get saved? & any chance I can binary edit the > > Generic Kernel to take care of my prob. Or is there some other solution > > available > > Regards.... ..je > > > > > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message