From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon May 24 12: 9:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BB414D3E for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 12:09:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA97691; Mon, 24 May 1999 20:09:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 20:09:28 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Tony Byrne Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring devices at boot time. In-Reply-To: <37491E81.114CC0ED@nua.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 24 May 1999, Tony Byrne wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying rather desperately to install FreeBSD current on my > Miata. The machine has a dead onboard network controller so I've popped > in a 3COM 3c905B which is detected nicely by the kernel during boot. > > Unfortunately, the boot process hangs soon after the kernel spots the > onboard Digital NIC. Is there any easy way of disabling devices at boot > time in a way similar to the "boot -c" option under i386? I haven't > been able to find reference to such a facility. Unfortunately not. Your best bet is to build a kernel without the de driver in it and put that on the first install floppy. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message