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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:42:04 -0700
From:      Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>
To:        Donald Burr <dburr@borg-cube.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:    Re: Setting sysctl variables BEFORE the kernel boots and runs init? 
Message-ID:  <200308272342.h7RNg4Fv029503@quarter.csl.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Donald Burr <dburr@borg-cube.com>  <D032A40D-D8E3-11D7-B4CB-0003939F9330@borg-cube.com> 

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> I would like to be able to set certain sysctl variables in the kernel,
> preferably BEFORE the kernel finishes booting and runs init, etc. (or at
> the worst case, very shortly after init runs) I thought I remembered
> that there was a way to do this through the boot loader.  Can anyone
> enlighten me?  Thanks.

Although I haven't done this myself, I think a start may be reading the
man pages for loader(8), loader.conf(5) and boot(8).

 - Mike







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