From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Nov 5 19: 3: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from medusa.mminternet.com (medusa.mminternet.com [216.86.201.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0286837B4C5 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:03:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mminternet.com (adsl-gte-la-216-86-193-252.mminternet.com [216.86.193.252]) by medusa.mminternet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA16130 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:08:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3A05BCBC.4030603@mminternet.com> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 20:02:04 +0000 From: click46 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000922 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Custom Kernel Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org After using FreeBSD for about 2 weeks now, I've decided to delve into compiling my own kernel. I run off an Abit BP6 with (2) Celeron 433's and 320MB RAM. The BP6 has an onboard UltraATA 66 controller made my Highpoint [HPT366]. With my GENERIC install, it probes on startup and atapci1 and atapci2 are "set" [?] to my Highpoint controller. Flipping through my "The Complete FreeBSD" I couldn't find a "value" or whatnot to specifically set for compiling my custom kernel. My questions: 1) What exactly does the stuff the probe on startup mean? 2) atapci1 & 2 are called ____ 3) Is there a way to capture the output of the probe? Do I even care? 4) Am I wasting my time here? I'm still not certain whether or not I need to even care about this. However in The Complete FreeBSD, Greg mentions that one of the key points to having a custom kernel is so that it loads faster, not having to probe. Thanks for any help you can provide. I'm looking forward to saving up for an $80 FreeBSD jacket so I can be THE nerd on campus =) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message