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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:59:31 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Building a kernel with disabled devices
Message-ID:  <199807220959.LAA05052@cdsec.com>

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Hi all

Another question on kernel building - is there a way that a kernel can be
built in which all the network devices are present but disabled, so that
on the first boot with that kernel none of them are probed? Yes, I know
that I could build a kernel, boot with -c and disable the devices, and
the resulting kernel would be what I want, but I would like to be able
to do this without having to boot the kernel, so that I can have a
Makefile that will build several kernels, each of which will have the
NIC drivers disabled, without having to go through multiple reboots 
each time to do the disabling.

TIA
gram
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