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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:41:04 -0600
From: Craig Bevins <craigb@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel boot messages
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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In article <33C3499B.A4E6E2E0@bangate.eur.compaq.com>,
Andreas Hinterleitner <ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com> wrote:
> When my 2.2.2 kernel boots, it displays
>
> FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0:...
> root@myname.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/compile/MYKERNEL
>
> Can anybody tell me what the "#0" in the first line would say ...
There should be a build date after the #0 (this number increases with
each kernel build, BTW)
> ... How can I change the stupid "myname.my.domain"?
Set your hostname before you build the kernel.
> What about the path of the kernel configuration file
> in the second line, can I suppress this somehow? What is it good for?
It tells you which kernel build you have booted off. You could probably
suppress it by hacking on the right scripts in the config directories,
but why bother? It only appears for a few seconds at boot time, and
surely memory is not so tight that you can't spare a few extra bytes for
the kernel ID.
Craig
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