From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 2 19:47:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6287337B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05ABD43E3B for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021003024713.WXXX9928.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 02:47:13 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g932o5MX027852; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g932nxpC027849; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:49:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Ross Lippert Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doc update References: <200210021927.MAA00761@eskimo.com> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 02 Oct 2002 19:49:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200210021927.MAA00761@eskimo.com> Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ross Lippert writes: > >The third is to explain /boot/kernel.conf which is barely mentioned elsewhere. > I find such discussions so enlightening. My system doesn't have > /boot/kernel.conf Try handbook.txt (two occurances) and loader(8) and kget(8). I suspect that it is created when you use certain features of the kernel-config "visual" menu thing that's available from the boot prompt. The only thing I've seen in the file is lines like "di pcic0" to cause the kernel to disable the pcic0 device (ie, the driver for it). Sorta counters the line in the KERNCONF file which requests the device. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message