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Subject: Re: [patch] Moving modules to MFSROOT in -STABLE (x86)
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Sounds good to me -- I assume all the various bugs with multiple load
attempts of the modules on a sysinstall restart were long since fixed?  (I
think I even saw commit messages go by).  We might want to ask people to
add sysinstall restarts to their testing schedule (if any :-).

How much room is typically free on the mfsroot floppy?

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Murray Stokely wrote:

>   Sysinstall has had the ability to load additional modules from
> /stand/modules for quite some time, but the functionality to populate
> /stand/modules on the MFSROOT floppy was never MFCed.  A good
> description of hosokawa's drivers.conf functionality is available here
> :
> 
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~hosokawa/driver-floppy/
> 
>   I think that we should merge this functionality for the release to
> solve our floppy overflow problems.  A patch for src/release/Makefile
> (partial MFC of r.578) and src/release/scripts/dokern.sh, along with a
> very minimal drivers.conf file can be downloaded here :
> 
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/patches.html
> 
>   With this change, the wireless Ethernet devices are removed from the
> boot kernel, and the modules are placed in /stand/modules of the
> MFSROOT.  If you switch the debug screen of sysinstall, you will
> notice a couple of 'DEBUG: Loading module if_xx.ko (description)'
> lines.
> 
>   I've placed kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images in my freefall patches
> directory as well, in case anyone wants to play with this without
> building a full release.
> 
>   Comments?  Any objections to me committing this to RELENG_4 this
> evening?  
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	- Murray
> 


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