Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:36:24 -0700 From: Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Loading a KLM at boot time (issues) Message-ID: <4BCA6218.5020308@mahan.org>
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I am looking for some guidance and perhaps a method to debug an issue I am having with a KLM. For various reasons, I have to make use of random.ko instead of having it built as part of the kernel. As a result, I am adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf - random_load=yes # I have also tried random_load="YES" On some platforms (Intel Xeon L5518 running FBSD 8.0-release-p2) this works as expected and a kldstat shows random.ko as loaded. However, on other platforms (Intel Xeon E5440 running FBSD 8.0-release-p2) this is not working. random.ko does not get loaded and as a result SSHD will not start which causes havoc with QA/Release engineering. I cannot figure this one out. I don't see any messages on the console indicating that it has failed to load. But sshd complains about not finding the /dev/random and logging in and doing a kldstat shows that random.ko is not there. However, it is there because I can do a 'kldload random; /etc/rc.d/sshd start' and I get SSHD up and running. Nothing popped up when I tried "debugging loader.conf" in Google. Any suggestions? Thanks, Patrick
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