From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 26 15:52:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp4.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp4.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB6937B4B6 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 15:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mach4 (cvg-29-18-158.cinci.rr.com [24.29.18.158]) by clmboh1-smtp4.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g4QMpZT26254 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 18:51:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 18:50:22 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Annelise Anderson Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Subject: Re: Kernel config> errors From: Elliott Liggett Message-Id: <0D6BF632-70FB-11D6-B4E0-0003930AFE0E@cinci.rr.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks everyone for your help, I deleted everything in the file except the line with 'q' although I suspect it would work fine if I just removed the file all together. Thanks a lot! On Sunday, May 26, 2002, at 05:30 PM, Annelise Anderson wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2002, Elliott Liggett wrote: > >> Just compiled my first FreeBSD kernels last night, and I noticed >> something in dmesg that I don't think was there before :) >> Anyway, I'm totally confused, as the devices which it says are 'not >> found' are also commented out in my kernel config file. >> >> Can someone shed some light here? Thanks, and here's my dmesg output >> (well some of it): >> >> Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. >> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, >> 1994 >> The Regents of the University of California. All rights >> reserved. >> FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Sun May 26 06:41:53 GMT 2002 >> liggett@floyd.localdomain:/usr/src/sys/compile/KILOWATT02 >> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz >> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 501140237 Hz >> CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (501.14-MHz 586-class CPU) >> Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 >> Features=0x8021bf >> AMD Features=0x80000800 >> real memory = 134152192 (131008K bytes) >> config> di sn0 >> No such device: sn0 > > These and the other lines result from your initial kernel > configuration when you installed FreeBSD. You'll find > the file with lines such as "di sn0" (meaning disable the sn > device driver) in /boot/kernel.conf. > > You can edit this file or delete the specific lines, since > the drivers no longer need to be disabled on boot--you have > taken them out of your kernel. Of course, they remain in > kernel.GENERIC. > > >> ----snip---- > > Annelise > > -- > Annelise Anderson > Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC > Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com > Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ > > > > > 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