From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 21 23:44:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from racine.cybercable.fr (racine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3B6837B649 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:44:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Received: (qmail 12055019 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2000 07:44:16 -0000 Received: from d122.paris-30.cybercable.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([212.198.30.122]) (envelope-sender ) by racine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Feb 2000 07:44:16 -0000 Message-ID: <38B23D6A.9F73BD55@cybercable.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 08:40:26 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Donn Miller , Vladimir Kushnir , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: After last ATAPI update system doesn't boot if modules loaded by /boot/loader. References: <200002220632.WAA00686@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've yesterday sent a post on this list (from my work email) about the impossibility of loading the if_xl and miibus modules with the loader (it works well with kldload, afterwards) This is with 4.0 - RC1. TfH (The loader loops trying to load the miibus module) Mike Smith wrote: > > > Vladimir Kushnir wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I dont't know if this is some HW problem, but after the last update system > > > became unbootable if I load modules by /boot/loader rather them kldload. > > That seems to be a bug -- I'd just load the modules via /etc/rc.conf for > > now. Other people have reported problems when loading modules via the > > boot loader. My advice would be to just load them via /etc/rc.conf > > This is entirely incorrect, and if you're having trouble loading modules > with the loader there's something wrong that needs to be fixed. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message