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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:14:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: [answer] odd behaviour from loader/kernel
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oh hell.. now that I posted this I remembered how it's done in 4.x
(kernel.conf)
ignore this..

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> Running 4.4-RELEASE
> 
> 
> I have a kernel with the cyclades driver (cy) which I want 
> to use on several machines. On on eof the machines however, having
> that kernel with no cyclades card results in a page fault in cyprobe().
> The simple answer is to just disable the cy driver.. (I really don't
> want a separate kernel for this machine)
> 
> If I boot -c I can type "dis cy0"
> and all works sweet. But I can't be there to type that all the time.
> I've tried adding 
> hint.cy.0.disabled="1" to both
> loader .conf and /boot/device.hints (which didn't exist before)
> but when I do a boot -c I see that it is still enabled, and the system
> still crashes during boot. It appears that this is a 5.x feature.
> (gee how we forget)
> 
> Is there something I need to do to get thes dammned device to disable?
> Is there somethign I can type in a file somewhere?, Which file?
> what do I type at the boot loader prompt to disable the device?
> (can I do that? other than boot -c..... disable cy0)
> 
> Julian
> 
> 
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