From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 14:28:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawaii.conterra.com (hawaii.conterra.com [209.12.164.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0539A14EA2 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:28:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myself@conterra.com) Received: from dmaddox.conterra.com (myself@dmaddox.conterra.com [209.12.169.48]) by hawaii.conterra.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA29536; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:27:43 -0500 (EST) Received: (from myself@localhost) by dmaddox.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA01383; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:27:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from myself) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:27:45 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: Jeff Ehrenkrantz Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Boot -c in 3.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <19990301172745.A1281@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: <005801be63d9$feadab00$3142f5cf@whyy.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <005801be63d9$feadab00$3142f5cf@whyy.org>; from Jeff Ehrenkrantz on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:52:32AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In aout systems, the 'dset' program was used to write configuration changes directly to the aout kernel image. It doesn't work with ELF kernels. A utility called 'kget' was recently added to the -current tree to do something similar for ELF kernels, but that doesn't help you much... You need to create a /boot/boot.config file that contains at least these lines: load kernel load -t userconfig_script /boot/kernel.conf Then, you need to create a /boot/kernel.conf file that contains the commands that you would normally type at the config> prompt. On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:52:32AM -0500, Jeff Ehrenkrantz wrote: > Hello All, > I recently Installed 3.1 Release on a drive having the old boot blocks. > Thus it is necessary for me to do a "boot -c" to tweak an Ethernet isa > address. Although the system does work after this tweak. The change does > not get stored. This system is a minimum hard drive/system install so I > don't have the space to compile a custom kernel at this point. Can someone > tell me why the changes don't get saved? & any chance I can binary edit the > Generic Kernel to take care of my prob. Or is there some other solution > available > Regards.... ..je > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message