From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 21:39:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704D737B41C for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA15323; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:39:05 -0800 Message-ID: <3BEF6078.7000008@owt.com> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:39:04 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: No such device, error message booting new kernel. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > I recompiled the kernel removing a lot of the generic device definitions. > When I boot the new kernel I get the following 3 messages in the boot log > for every device that I removed from the generic kernel. The new kernel > boots ok except for these errors messages. I think these errors are causing > the SIO0-3 devices to also be flagged as in error causing my external modem > on com1 not to be found. The generic kernel finds my com1 modem just fine. > The sio device definitions are the same in both kernels. I had to turn on > the verbose flag during the boot to make these messages show up. > > config di xxx > No such device xxx > Invalid command or syntax. Type '?' for help. > > Where xxx is one of the devices I removed. > > This must mean that there is some other configuration file containing these > Config di xxx statements that the booter is reading. Could not find any > reference in the FBSD handbook about this. > > What is the path/name of the file I must edit to remove these statements to > put it in sync with the devices in my new kernel? > > Look at /boot/kernel.conf Kent > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message