From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 7 05:51:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA16113 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 05:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA16100 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 05:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA24362; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:51:41 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA02380; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:34:49 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970607143449.AA44700@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:34:49 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (hackers) Cc: apesa@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Visual kernel config References: <3398F3DB.833@bellsouth.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3398F3DB.833@bellsouth.net>; from Arthur Pesa on Jun 7, 1997 01:38:35 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Arthur Pesa wrote: > If you use the -c at boot and go to visual kernel config, are you > editing your own compiled "made" kernel or do you see the GENERIC > kernel. You are editing the main memory. If you continue with multi-user boot, dset(8) (run from /etc/rc) tries to save back your changes into the kernel image, as indicated by the sysctl variable kern.bootfile. > I ask becase I "made" my own kernel, I then proceeded to configure pppd. > After the reboot, I lost my ep0 (3Com) ether? Did you also `make install' it? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)