From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 10 23:17:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFEE16A41A for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:17:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@mawer.org) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4EC13C45D for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:17:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@mawer.org) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAALJQXUfLzq3r/2dsb2JhbAAI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,148,1196607600"; d="scan'208";a="192656141" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.24.1.1]) ([203.206.173.235]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 11 Dec 2007 07:48:41 +0900 Message-ID: <475DC259.6070006@mawer.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:48:57 +1100 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" References: <475D402D.1080000@gmail.com> <475D92C8.7020404@gmail.com> <475D4CDB.1070608@gmail.com> <475DA681.7070302@web.de> <475D6127.60801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <475D6127.60801@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rob Messick , Tino Engel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loading modules not in /boot/kernel from loader.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:17:48 -0000 On 11/12/2007 2:54 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> You could make a softlink... > > Thats what raised the question I was doing ln -s > /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko /boot/kernel/fuse.ko Remember that this is the loader which will be loading the module, so if /usr is a separate partition then this will not work as /usr doesn't get mounted until much, much later in the boot process... Alternatively, if you're using your own home-brew rc script, why not just add a kldload fuse into it? --Antony