From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 25 12:52:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E4B1065679 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:52:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59128FC16 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta23.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.74]) by qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id p05E1h0011c6gX8590sHbs; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:52:17 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta23.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id p0sG1h00E1t3BNj3j0sGto; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:52:17 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ED7A0102C1A; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:52:14 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Daniel O'Connor Message-ID: <20111025125214.GB87567@icarus.home.lan> References: <4EA67991.5020604@gmail.com> <1319536366754-4935645.post@n5.nabble.com> <4EA68DE5.80007@gmail.com> <4EA6A561.80405@quip.cz> <25920BDD-40FE-43D3-BC0A-A34A30DFC353@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <25920BDD-40FE-43D3-BC0A-A34A30DFC353@gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Johan Hendriks , timp , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Subject: Re: From 8-stable to 9.0 RC1 iscsi panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:52:18 -0000 On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:46:55PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 25/10/2011, at 22:32, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > > >> Well i did use the single user mode ! > >> And the safe mode ! > >> But they all gave me that error. > >> So the did load the loader.conf file. > > > > I think modules are loaded before displaying boot menu, where you can choose to boot in to single user mode. > > But you can enter the boot loader prompt, where you can unload already loaded modules or load new modules by its name, so you don't need to edit loader.conf for one time boot option. > > They aren't loaded before displaying the menu, but the list of modules to load is worked out then. > > If you want to boot without loading the modules listed in loader.conf you need to break into the loader and type.. > unload > boot -s > (or whatever options you want) Yup, correct. The person who said "single-user mode doesn't read loader.conf!" is absolutely incorrect. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |