Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 04:06:32 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: potential for foot-shooting with KLD's Message-ID: <20030304020632.GA681@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030304004124.B68258@prg.traveller.cz> References: <20030302153608.P44831@prg.traveller.cz> <20030303171905.GC56386@gothmog.gr> <20030304004124.B68258@prg.traveller.cz>
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On 2003-03-02 17:34, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> wrote: : Imagine you decided to go with modular kernel. You comment out 'device : random' in your kernel-config and place 'random_load="YES"' in : /boot/loader.conf. When you reboot and don't rebuild the kernel first, you : have your machine unbootable - at least in case you previously had acpi in : your kernel and acpi doesn't work without OS supplied dsdt (as in my : case) or you need acpi as a module or any other module. : : The way out is to boot from install CDROM, have fixit floppy, mount the : old root and remove the random.ko module. Which is pretty inconvenient, : when you don't have the medias handy. : : The problem is that I can't ask loader not to load some module. It doesn't : understand 'unset XX_load'. It doesn't work to say 'set XX_load="NO"' : either. The only way I found to make it not load the modules is to 'load : /boot/kernel/kernel;set module_path="";boot'. Unfortunately it doesn't : help me either because I need to load special acpi_dsdt.aml which isn't : then loaded either. On 2003-03-03 17:19:05, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: : : How about `unset XX_load' ? : : - Giorgos On 2003-03-04 00:41, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> wrote: : > How about `unset XX_load' ? : : It works only for acpi. I just tried editing my /boot/loader.conf to make sure you haven't hit upon a bug. I added this line: ipfw_load="YES" and rebooted. The loader loaded both /boot/kernel/kernel and ipfw.ko as you'd expect. I then used the `unload' command and loaded only my kernel afterwards: OK unload OK load /boot/kernel/kernel OK boot -s Voila! Only my kernel and acpi.ko were loaded. Then, without editing my /boot/loader.conf I rebooted and inteerrupted the loader after ipfw.ko and the kernel were loaded. I disabled ACPI with: OK unset acpi_load OK boot -s Only the kernel and ipfw.ko were loaded. Then, I tried yet another way of disabling ipfw.ko at load time, and set ipfw_load to "NO" in my loader.conf. Only the kernel and acpi.ko were loaded. What is it that troubles you? I'm not sure I can reproduce it. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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