From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 15 11:16:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lafontaine.cybercable.fr (lafontaine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C0CE37C6B9 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhenrion@cybercable.fr) Received: (qmail 15598151 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2000 18:16:04 -0000 Received: from r121m199.cybercable.tm.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([195.132.121.199]) (envelope-sender ) by lafontaine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Jul 2000 18:16:04 -0000 Message-ID: <3970AB23.F76B05CB@cybercable.fr> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:19:15 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: config and config -r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I think the config program used to compile a kernel lacks some documentation because there are several points that remain unclear to me, even after reading the man page. I had several bad surprises with it ! :-) As I didn't want to recompile the whole stuff, I used a config and not a config -r to build a new kernel, after having changed its configuration. I removed several devices and I thought that won't cause any problem, as the objects files for these devices won't be linked into the kernel. But after rebooting on this new kernel, I had a page fault before any kernel message :/ Is there anything to check in order to know if I can use a config instead of a config -r ? If using a config without the -r option is dangerous, I think it shouldn't be the default. Is it the case ? Regards, -Maxime Henrion To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message