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From: dean@deanstoy.wa.com (Dean M. Phillips)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot: -c option
Organization: None whatsoever!
Message-ID: <D539My.66@deanstoy.wa.com>
References: <3jg20j$er3@central.server.swt.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 21:13:46 GMT
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In article <3jg20j$er3@central.server.swt.edu> tst@academia.swt.edu
(Thomas S. Traylor) writes:
>Where would one get more information on the '-c' option to FreeBSD's boot:
>prompt?

From the '-c' option!   :-)

Say -c to the boot: prompt and you get:

config>

Say help and it gives you a list of commands and explanations.

You can, for example, say "disable ep0" to disable the probe for a 3c509
card.  You can also change I/O port, IRQ, DMA and memory region assignments.
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