From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 22 02:54:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA25420 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:54:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA25383 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:54:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cdsec.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id MAA03277 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:00:49 +0200 (SAT) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 3275; Wed Jul 22 12:00:20 1998 From: Graham Wheeler Message-Id: <199807220959.LAA05052@cdsec.com> Subject: Building a kernel with disabled devices To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:59:31 +0200 (SAT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25-h4.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all Another question on kernel building - is there a way that a kernel can be built in which all the network devices are present but disabled, so that on the first boot with that kernel none of them are probed? Yes, I know that I could build a kernel, boot with -c and disable the devices, and the resulting kernel would be what I want, but I would like to be able to do this without having to boot the kernel, so that I can have a Makefile that will build several kernels, each of which will have the NIC drivers disabled, without having to go through multiple reboots each time to do the disabling. TIA gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cdsec.com Citadel Data Security Phone: +27(21)23-6065/6/7 Internet/Intranet Network Specialists Mobile: +27(83)253-9864 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data Security Products WWW: http://www.cdsec.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message