Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:45:58 -0700 (PDT) From: mike@hyperreal.org To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel errors in dmesg Message-ID: <19990620014558.24244.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <199906191022.GAA90423@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Jun 19, 1999 06:22:58 am"
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Thomas David Rivers wrote: > I believe the problem would be that you've got an old boot > configuration file. Did you previously disable those > devices at boot time? That's it.. someone else pointed it out, as well. /boot/kernel.conf is not mentioned at all in the FreeBSD Handbook's kernel config section. Apparently /boot/kernel.conf is parsed if a userconfig_script_load variable in /boot/loader.conf is "YES". I had originally installed FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, which uses the GENERIC kernel, of course, and I chose through the installer to disable a bunch fo devices, then promptly forgot all about having done this. Several kernel compiles later, I'd trimmed those drivers out of the kernel but the /boot/kernel.conf file was still saying to disable them, assuming they were loaded. Hence "syntax error" (not the best choice of error messages, IMHO). Thanks!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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