AUTOCONF(4) | Device Drivers Manual (alpha) | AUTOCONF(4)

# NAME

`autoconf` — diagnostics from the autoconfiguration code

# DESCRIPTION

When NetBSD bootstraps it probes the innards of the machine on which it is running and locates controllers, drives, and other devices, printing out what it finds on the console. This procedure is driven by a system configuration table which is processed by config(1) and compiled into each kernel. Devices which exist in the machine but are not configured into the kernel are not detected.

# DIAGNOSTICS

Support for system type %d is not present in this kernel.
  You tried to boot NetBSD on a class of CPU type which it doesn't (or at least this compiled version of NetBSD doesn't) understand.
NetBSD does not yet support system type %d (%s).
  You tried to boot NetBSD on an unsupported system.
WARNING: can't figure what device matches %s.
  Unknown device.
PALcode not valid
  You tried to boot NetBSD on a system with an unknown version of the PALcode.

# SEE ALSO

config(1), alpha/intro(4), boot(8)

February 17, 2017 | NetBSD 11.0