From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 22 9:52:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from intersys.com (gateway.intersys.com [198.133.74.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2381537B503 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:52:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bojar@intersys.com) Received: by gateway.intersys.com id <115235>; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:55:43 -0500 Message-Id: <01Feb22.125543est.115235@gateway.intersys.com> From: "E. Jordan Bojar" To: "Edwin Groothuis" Cc: References: <01Feb22.115309est.115218@gateway.intersys.com> <01Feb22.122657est.115362@gateway.intersys.com> <01Feb22.123318est.115275@gateway.intersys.com> <01Feb22.124403est.115368@gateway.intersys.com> Subject: Re: Startup Devices MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:55:43 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So remove the kernel.conf file entirely, or just empty it and leave it put? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin Groothuis" To: "E. Jordan Bojar" Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:44 PM Subject: Re: Startup Devices > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:33:17PM -0500, E. Jordan Bojar wrote: > > > Grep for a missing device in the files in /boot if I recall correctly... > > > > OK, thanks. I found these in kernel.conf. Can you tell me why are only > > devices I don't have listed there, but devices I do have are absent? I'm a > > bit confused as to what's actually being done here... > > Most probably: The first time you throw them all out of your > kernel-config in the visual-config. Then you recompiled your kernel > without the things you didn't have and rebooted. At that point the > new kernel, with the old config, didn't know about the removed > devices. > > Edwin > > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: > mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ > ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 > > 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