From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 21 23:48:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles543.castles.com [208.214.165.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F47D37B5F8; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:48:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA44693; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:01:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002220801.AAA44693@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: Mike Smith , Donn Miller , Vladimir Kushnir , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After last ATAPI update system doesn't boot if modules loaded by /boot/loader. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2000 08:40:26 +0100." <38B23D6A.9F73BD55@cybercable.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:01:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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 a known problem with modules that have dependancies; if you load the miibus module first it shouldn't happen (I haven't tested this). We tried to get some code to fix this into 4.x, but were thwarted by the freeze. Other modules should, however, work fine. -- \\ 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