Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:30:07 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common help.common src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf Message-ID: <20040810103007.GB30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <20040809173814.GG991@funkthat.com> References: <200408061506.i76F66sl018247@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040809124153.GN628@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20040809173814.GG991@funkthat.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:38:14AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: +> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote this message on Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 14:41 +0200: +> > If kernel name is given for the 'boot' command, '/boot/<kernname>' path is +> > probably added to kern.module_path, but for normal boot process it is not, +> > so kern.module_path is set only to "/boot/modules". +> > Some applications depend on this sysctl and they don't work properly now. +> > Please fix. +> +> Have you verified this is a problem? On my test box that has: +> defaults/loader.conf:module_path="/boot/modules" # Set the module search path +> +> and was booted: +> [...] +> /boot/kernel/accf_http.ko text=0xb84 data=0x150+0x4 syms=[0x4+0x310+0x4+0x334] +> +> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. +> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... +> +> (i.e. normal boot process w/ no interaction) +> +> My sysctl returns: +> -bash-2.05b$ sysctl kern.module_path +> kern.module_path: /boot/kernel;/boot/modules +> +> Please include complete information of the breakage that this change +> is suppose to cause. I've just checked on the next machine (this is 3rd machine) and it doesn't put '/boot/kernel' into 'kern.module_path' sysctl. That's why kldload(8) cannot work properly. The only difference that I'm seeing between our environments is that I use new loader (with beastie picture) everywhere and you don't use it, right? -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBGKOvForvXbEpPzQRAtL7AKCreKy85rt+gk5RUggrKT+NymwhlQCgjFtU U8jyjuDIjvjtcKxd0LLK3YU= =aVkh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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