From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 13:16:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicdms.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8279614FC0 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:16:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walton@emusic.com) Received: (qmail 17395 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 1999 21:16:01 -0000 Message-ID: <19990326211601.17392.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> Received: (qmail 17381 invoked from network); 26 Mar 1999 21:16:01 -0000 Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (HELO mail-ftp) (207.21.168.100) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 1999 21:16:01 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" Organization: Emusic To: Charles Randall , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:16:00 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: In 3.1, can't seem to save device list after boot -cv Reply-To: walton@emusic.com In-reply-to: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC03022B6169@houston.matchlogic.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just ran into a variation of this problem. I followed the instructions in ERRATA.TXT, and that worked fine. Later I did boot -c again and changed the settings. The new settings weren't saved in either /kernel.config or /boot/kernel.conf. What gives? Dave On 26 Mar 99, at 9:51, Charles Randall wrote: > See the ERRATA.TXT file, > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT > > --- snip --- > o Kernel change information is not saved in the new kernel, even > though this is claimed to work in the docs. > > Fix: The change information is being written out, in fact, but to the > wrong location. move /kernel.config to /boot/kernel.conf (if it > exists, otherwise there were no changes to save) and add the > following lines to /boot/loader.rc: > > load /kernel > load -t userconfig_script /boot/kernel.conf > autoboot 5 > > This will cause the kernel change information to be read in and > used properly (and you just learned a little about the new 3-stage > loader in the process, so the exercise wasn't a total loss). > --- snip --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Emusic walton@emusic.com http://www.emusic.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message