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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>=20
>>  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 a=
nd
>>  loader.conf-selected modules from /boot/NAME, but it would not change=

>>  module_path. So, for instance, the automatically loaded acpi.ko would=
 come
>>  from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko, *always*.
>=20
> 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?

There have been many discussions around this subject before. The problem =

is that /boot/loader.rc is deemed to be untouchable, so the solutions I=20
support won't handle this particular problem. I'd like to have=20
/boot/defaults/loader.rc to be loaded _if_ a /boot/loader.rc can't be=20
found, and only install that file. That would solve this kind of=20
situation in the future, but not now.

I suggest a note in UPDATING. I can't see what more we could do.

--=20
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)

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