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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 2003 19:19:05 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: potential for foot-shooting with KLD's
Message-ID:  <20030303171905.GC56386@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20030302153608.P44831@prg.traveller.cz>
References:  <20030302153608.P44831@prg.traveller.cz>

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On 2003-03-02 17:34, Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> wrote:
> Imagine you decided to go with modular kernel. You comment out 'device
> random' in your kernel-config and place 'random_load="YES"' in
> /boot/loader.conf. When you reboot and don't rebuild the kernel first, you
> have your machine unbootable - at least in case you previously had acpi in
> your kernel and acpi doesn't work without OS supplied dsdt (as in my
> case) or you need acpi as a module or any other module.
>
> The way out is to boot from install CDROM, have fixit floppy, mount the
> old root and remove the random.ko module. Which is pretty inconvenient,
> when you don't have the medias handy.
>
> The problem is that I can't ask loader not to load some module. It doesn't
> understand 'unset XX_load'. It doesn't work to say 'set XX_load="NO"'
> either. The only way I found to make it not load the modules is to 'load
> /boot/kernel/kernel;set module_path="";boot'. Unfortunately it doesn't
> help me either because I need to load special acpi_dsdt.aml which isn't
> then loaded either.

How about `unset XX_load' ?

- Giorgos


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