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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:42:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   odd behaviour from loader/kernel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110041802470.3183-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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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



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