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.Dd September 21, 2001
.Dt AUTOCONF 4 alpha
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm autoconf
.Nd diagnostics from the autoconfiguration code
.Sh DESCRIPTION
When
.Nx
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
.Xr config 1
and compiled into each kernel.
Devices which exist in the machine but are not configured into the
kernel are not detected.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "Support for system type %d is not present in this kernel."
You tried to boot
.Nx
on a class of
.Tn CPU
type which it doesn't
(or at least this compiled version of
.Nx
doesn't) understand.
.It "NetBSD does not yet support system type %d (%s)."
You tried to boot
.Nx
on an unsupported system.
.It "WARNING: can't figure what device matches %s."
Unknown device.
.It PALcode not valid
You tried to boot
.Nx
on a system with an unknown version of the PALcode.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr config 1 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr boot 8