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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:48:48 +0100
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script
Message-ID:  <4B2FA6F0.30306@eskk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <4B2FA3DD.5050206@lazlarlyricon.com>
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On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> Leslie Jensen wrote:
>>
>> Following the suggestion here:
>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664&postcount=5
>>
>> To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/
>>
>> Produces the following:
>>
>> WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/
>>
>> I found the answer here:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2896643&group_id=151951&atid=782616
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like a suggestion on how to load the modules!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> /Leslie

>>
>>
>
> Can't you load the modules from /boot/loader.conf? AFAIK VirtualBox
> places its modules in /boot/modules, which makes them loadable by
> load_modulename="YES" in /boot/loader.conf, where modulename should be
> replaced by the filename of the module(s), omitting the leading path and
> the .ko suffix, e.g. nvidia_load=YES" loads /boot/modules/nvidia.ko.

Correction....................

I read in the same post that the loading order was important, and the 
way I understood it was that, if I load via loader.conf I could not be 
sure that the order is correct!





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