From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 22 0: 8:11 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 DB76337B5EE; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:08:04 -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 AAA86719; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002220820.AAA86719@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 08:57:23 +0100." <38B24163.C1A6C33B@cybercable.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:20:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > 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) Actually, I think that turning off dependancy handling in the loader is the right way to do it. -- \\ 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