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Date:      Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:46:05 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Andreas Wideroe Andersen <awand@pragma.no>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot errors: No such device...
Message-ID:  <20020808194605.GA59926@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3D528D20.2050006@pragma.no>
References:  <3D528D20.2050006@pragma.no>

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On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:24:16PM +0200, Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote:
> I have built a custom kernel and I'm getting the following errors 
> when the machine boots:

[...]
> config> di adv0
> No such device: adv0
> Invalid command or syntax.  Type `?' for help.
> config> q
> 
> What does this mean? I've been looking in my kernel config file and 
> tried to exclude all I don't need, but maybe I'm missing one or 
> something...

The boot process attempts to run the contents of /boot/kernel.conf.
Since you made a custom kernel, the previous contents are now invalid.
You can remove /boot/kernel.conf (make a backup, just in case - it's
just a text file).
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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