From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 4 12: 6:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [208.237.133.234] (mail.ade.com [208.237.133.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 276D137B42B for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:06:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from no.name.available by [208.237.133.234] via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 4 Feb 2002 20:06:48 UT Received: (private information removed) Message-ID: From: Chris Corayer To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Kernel Question Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:07:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 ----------------------------------------------------- |Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:31:36 -0600 |From: "Scott Gerhardt" |Subject: Kernel Question | |I just installed 4.5-Release and rebuilt my custom kernel. |When checking dmesg and /var/log messages I noticed the errors (see at |bottom of message): |I noticed that /boot/kernel.conf had the following entries: | | *SNIP* | |These devices do not exist on my system so I deleted the entries from |kernel.conf and now the system boots up fine with no errors. | |I may have added these entries by accident during the install when I |"deleted" the conflicting devices from the Kernel Configuration. | |What is the purpose of /boot/kernel.conf and should the file be empty or |even exist? | ------------------------------------------------ This file is created when you first install FreeBSD. This is where you do all the kernel configuring at the very beginning. Its purpose is to allow the kernel to know what devices to skip loading so that it doesn't waste time or get confused. For the most part, once the kernel has been recompiled it isn't really needed in my experience. I've only had to add it back in once. My laptop will not use apm without enable apm in the kernel.conf. Other than that, I've never bothered to keep the file once I recompiled. -Regards C. Corayer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message