From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 22 0: 1:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from camus.cybercable.fr (camus.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E6F037B63F for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:01:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Received: (qmail 9379705 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2000 08:01:13 -0000 Received: from d122.paris-30.cybercable.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([212.198.30.122]) (envelope-sender ) by camus.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Feb 2000 08:01:13 -0000 Message-ID: <38B24163.C1A6C33B@cybercable.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 08:57:23 +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: <200002220808.AAA59841@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 Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > 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). > > > > it does : I've tried > > loading miibus alone : works fine > > loading miibus, then if_xl : loops in loading miibus > > Ok. We know that hurts, don't do that. 8) fine, could there be a note in /boot/loader.conf, so that l^Husers don't get burn trying to load things which won't work (no code change : just a word of caution) TfH > > -- > \\ 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