From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 24 13:01:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877421065675 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:01:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166EF8FC23 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D67E62BF; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:01:07 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=subject :mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; s=mail; bh= sBxUULUWcIgLZQkt7fBo3b/JWUo=; b=n44iLQF09CiHmT0rhxMjM+SG3SwdFs5k tOyu3RoefUBczHSN2d/+RP/Y4vjbDdAZDNLdHNY355dZF8PDst4p0u4ae4vp+XMN ET7crCtZi1Qof0q1NScdm7StT/ErGTPTUNfyvXfz98//6sutp7PL5+3VT4EIc3/F W2QM+AAYrUg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=subject :mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; q=dns; s= mail; b=P63XLIHLurMdlIEQ2DKDPrB0dt54vxvfiXBM8gAkK43iLRAhe7YjU46s vbNRnr4i0n7wTJwDgAdQgTJB/zHUHKRbwSBd9hXnL6CGGJ70CB0pD4p+Idb4G3kj uppds3C5x6ehgG3Wn4NPfl29ntQQOzSNJ2l8yE4C7hOw7l626Vo= Received: from neutrino.lan (188-222-18-231.zone13.bethere.co.uk [188.222.18.231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 78241E62B4; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:01:07 +0100 (BST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Bruce Cran In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:01:07 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <33087EBC-339E-464F-81CE-E536205D086D@cran.org.uk> References: To: Robert Simmons X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel modules in fixit X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:01:09 -0000 On 10 Jun 2011, at 04:43, Robert Simmons wrote: > Is there a reason why you are unable to load kernel modules by default > with kldload if you use a fixit shell in sysinstall? >=20 > Only after making the following symlinks is it possible: > ln -s /dist/lib /lib > ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot/modules You can also load them directly: e.g. "kldload ./module.ko" But the FixIt shell is very limited - a much better solution is coming = in 9.0. --=20 Bruce Cran