From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 13:12:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB1637B401 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:12:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE2A43E65 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g78Jk5GG059990; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:46:05 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g78Jk5CI059989; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:46:05 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:46:05 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Andreas Wideroe Andersen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot errors: No such device... Message-ID: <20020808194605.GA59926@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3D528D20.2050006@pragma.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D528D20.2050006@pragma.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door" - W.E. Channing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message