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From: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com>
To: "Tony Landells" <ahl@austclear.com.au>
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Subject: RE: Setting sysctl variables at boot time 
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:41:01 -0700
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Hi Tony,

Putting in /boot/load.conf.local worked! Thanks. Putting in
/boot/defaults/loader.conf or /boot/loader.conf does not however. I'm sure
there is a very good reason for that.

Thanks for your help!

Kory


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> kory@avatar.com said:
> > That worked for the vfs.vmiodirenable, which can be enabled at
> > anytime. However, for the "hw.ata.wc", I get an error for sysctl
> > saying that it is read-only. According to the FBSD Handbook, it must
> > be turned on before filesystems are mounted. The file /etc/sysctl.conf
> > is executed right before you go into multiuser mode, which I think it
> > too late and that probably why I'm getting that error.
>
> > There are some kernel variables that are being set (although they are
> > commented out) in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. I added my stuff in
> > there, but like I said, it seems to be ignored.
>
> I put the following in /boot/loader.conf.local (which is basically just
> an extension for /boot/loader.conf):
>
> 	hw.ata.wc="1"
>
> and rebooted, and now I have:
>
> 	freddo# sysctl hw.ata.wc
> 	hw.ata.wc: 1
>
> So if it doesn't work for you, I'm not sure what to suggest...  After
> that, you get into a long string of /boot/loader.rc, /boot/loader.4th,
> ... and my Forth programming ability is pretty much non-existent.
>
> Tony


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