From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 3: 7:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CC411523A for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 03:07:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10Mrgt-0008vH-0C; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:07:19 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id LAA02688; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:06:05 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05401; Tue, 16 Mar 99 11:06:04 GMT Message-Id: <36EE3B05.5362CDD7@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:05:41 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: dmaddox@conterra.com Cc: Chris Landauer , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.8 boot still wants sysinstall - answered References: <199903160211.SAA02628@chuck.aero.org> <36EE0BA1.1906680E@uk.radan.com> <19990316054507.A585@dmaddox.conterra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Donald J . Maddox" wrote: > > 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, Ah right. I never actually ran with an empty or missing /kernel.config or without q(uit) as the last line. > much like the original poster describes. The problem he reported is that it goes into sysinstall not the config editor, unless he's just called it the wrong thing. Chris. Is it the sysinstall menu, or do you get the ``config>''prompt? -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message