Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:52:47 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Parker Brown <phbrown@gte.net> Cc: Tech Support <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "Device not Found" messages at Boot Time Message-ID: <19990628185246.A256@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <3776D88F.1FC52FA8@gte.net>; from Parker Brown on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 07:06:07PM -0700 References: <3776D88F.1FC52FA8@gte.net>
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On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 07:06:07PM -0700, Parker Brown wrote:
> My question: How best to remedy this, and could someone give me an
> intuitive idea what is happening, and maybe tell me something of the
> load modules I am looking for?
>
> I rebuildt my kernel, and right after the kernel loads and the "real
> memory" message appears, I get a series of messages like:
>
> config>di zp0
> no such device: zp0
> config>di ze0
> ...and so on.
>
> While there seems to be no harm done, I would just like to clean things
> up a little, and maybe learn something while I'm at it.
>
> I've tried -c and boot time, but I can't find any commands to deactivate
> these devices.
>
> There is a file named /boot/kernel.conf which contains these very
> entries (ie, di zp0, di ze0, ..., q), and obviously this file is input
> to a configuration module. Can I delete this file, or at least take all
> the records out of it with exception of the last one ("q")?
You can do either. As you quite rightly worked out, it is an
"auto-answer" file for the boot config program. If you've built a
custom kernel without some or all of these devices then you can
remove the appropriate entries, or delete the file.
> I've
> grepped through A LOT of the src tree looking for a module that reads
> these records, so I could find out what "di" means and what would happen
> if the file weren't there. About all I found was a
> "userconfig_script_name=/boot/kernel.conf" constant defined in it in one
> of the ../boot sources, but I have no way of finding out what modules
> include/use that constant. Using man to look up config, boot, even di,
> is no help. If this stuff is referred to by the Handbook or The
> Complete FreeBSD book, I haven't been able to locate it.
>
>
>
>
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