From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Aug 30 18:27:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02503 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:27:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02498 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA08402 for freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 03:26:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 03:26:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199808310126.DAA08402@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to PnP without booting -c?gy Newsgroups: list.freebsd-multimedia Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I wrote in list.freebsd-multimedia: > Luigi Rizzo wrote in list.freebsd-multimedia: > > > Shouldn't it be possible to take the userconfig data (in > > > particular, the PnP configuration data) and put it into a > > > different kernel file? I experimented with dset and "sysctl > > > -w kern.bootfile=/kernel.new" and things like that, but it > > > didn't work. > > > > not sure because the symbol tables are also read from the new file i think. > > You'd need to tel "dset" that the pnp config is in the first file, but > > must be written in the second one. Or, add a couple of options to dset, > > one to fetch the pnp info from one kernel, the other one to write the > > previously dumped data into another kernel. Not hard at all, if you > > look at the #ifdef PNP in dset.c > > Thanks for the hint, I will look at that. So I did look at it, and I hacked an extension into dset.c so I can write the config info to a different kernel file. It works. :) Thanks again for the hint, Luigi. My problem is solved. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message