From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 2:45:30 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 CF3E814E51 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 02:45:24 -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 FAA14221; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 05:45:04 -0500 (EST) Received: (from myself@localhost) by dmaddox.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id FAA00807; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 05:45:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from myself) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 05:45:07 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: Mark Ovens Cc: Chris Landauer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.8 boot still wants sysinstall - answered Message-ID: <19990316054507.A585@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: <199903160211.SAA02628@chuck.aero.org> <36EE0BA1.1906680E@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <36EE0BA1.1906680E@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:43:29AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 07:43:29AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > Chris Landauer wrote: > > > > I recently asked why the sysinstall menu came up when i booted 2.2.8, > > and i now see in my kernel configuration file that i enabled > > USERCONFIG_BOOT > > > > which i presume causes exactly that behavior > > No. USERCONFIG_BOOT causes the kernel to read /kernel.config at boot > time, and execute any commands in there as if you had done ``boot -c'' > and typed them manually. It even echoes them to the screen the way you > would type them in. You could check if there is anything in > /kernel.config (I don't know if there is a boot option to start > sysinstall). No, actually, USERCONFIG_BOOT just causes the kernel config editor to be entered at boot time, and sources the /kernel.config... If your /kernel.config doesn't end with 'quit' or 'q', or if you don't actually have a /kernel.config, you would simply find yourself in the config editor at boot, much like the original poster describes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message