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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2003 23:33:09 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader loader.rc
Message-ID:  <xzp4qwxtkre.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200311211901.hALJ12uN003276@repoman.freebsd.org> (Daniel C. Sobral's message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:01:02 -0800 (PST)")
References:  <200311211901.hALJ12uN003276@repoman.freebsd.org>

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"Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   Log:
>   With the beastie menu a problem was introduced in which selecting a
>   different kernel to boot with kernel=3D"NAME" would load the kernel and
>   loader.conf-selected modules from /boot/NAME, but it would not change
>   module_path. So, for instance, the automatically loaded acpi.ko would c=
ome
>   from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko, *always*.
>   [...]

Thanks for fixing this.  Unfortunately, loader.rc is only installed if
it doesn't already exist, and mergemaster doesn't handle it, so
installed systems need to be fixed manually.  Is there something we
can do to the Makefile and / or mergemaster to address this?

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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