From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 3:35:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2CE837B417 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 03:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id g43AZAb24690; Fri, 3 May 2002 13:35:10 +0300 Message-Id: <200205031035.g43AZAb24690@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 3 May 02 13:33:03 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Nelis Lamprecht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:32:56 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: weird messages on bootup In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20020503115442.0134ae60@192.96.48.11> X-info: Headers changed by Barricade 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 > Even though my box is running with no problems I have been getting these > weird messages on bootup ever since I installed FreeBSD on this machine. > Just out of curiosity I'd thought I'd mail the list to see if anybody could > tell me what exactly is causing it. Is it just the way FreeBSD probes for > devices on startup? They appear almost immediately on boot before all the > other normal gunk: > > config> di sn0 > No such device: sn0 The lines after 'config>' come from file /boot/kernel.conf. They are put there by the visual kernel configuration procedure when you install FreeBSD. They are meant to disable the devices that you chose to disable during the install of FreeBSD. Once you get the system installed and build custom kernel without these devices, FreeBSD can no longer disable the devices because they simply do not exist. This is what it is trying to tell you with 'No such device' messages. You can remove the lines that represent non-existent devices from /boot/kernel.conf or write the following into /boot/loader.conf: userconfig_script_load="NO". -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Avoid commas, that are not necessary. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message