Disable devices at boot time?

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Thu Oct 17 14:54:38 UTC 2013


On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:28:15 +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Is there any way in FreeBSD to disable or enable devices on boot?

There is /boot/device.hints with settings like

	hint.<what>.<number>.disabled="1"

See "man 5 device.hints" for details. If you enter the loader
prompt, you can also manually enable or disable devices.



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