Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:14:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [answer] odd behaviour from loader/kernel Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110041913080.4474-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110041802470.3183-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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