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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:56:28PM +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 26/02/2008, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > As you've shown the magic is in the loader.conf.  I don't know a good way
> >  to handle this other than attempt to load every module (like Microsoft NT
> >  installer does) - and hope the probe of a driver that doesn't claim a
> >  device doesn't leave that device in a bad state.
> >
> >  Have you tried putting every module in /boot/kernel into loader.conf in a
> >  "load" statement?
> 
> I'm going to try doing that tonight.

Cool.  Please let us(me) know how it goes.
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)