Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:25:25 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Loader Conf Message-ID: <20111220112525.76b0d819@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20111220110119.3f085dfd@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:01:19 +0100 Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> wrote: > tomdean wrote: > > FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) amd64. up-to-date. > > > > I want to load a module, nvidia, on boot. > > > > /boot/loader.rc contains > > include /boot/loader.4th > > start > > > > /boot/loader.conf contains > > cpuctl_load="YES" > > nvidia_load="YES" > > > > /boot/modules/ directory contains > > nvidia.ko > > /boot/kernel/ directory contains > > cpuctl.ko > > > > But, the modules are not loaded. > > > > What am I missing? > > There's no cpuctl_load or nvidia_load in /boot/defaults/loader.conf in > 9.0 or 10.0 (I looked at the source on fxr.watson.org for 9.0 since I > run 10.0). So there's no way that this can work. > > Load these modules in /etc/rc.local. > > What's missing from the nividia-driver port is a start script which > should land under $LOCALBASE/etc/rc.d. > Well, I was wrong. That's what I get for only looking at loader.conf. Putting these into my loader.conf does result in the modules being loaded at boot time, so I'm at a loss to explain why it doesn't work for you (tomdean). Looks like the loader is smart enough to interpret xxx_load to mean "load module xxx from the usual module paths, if found." Live and learn. This makes me wonder what your kern.module_path is set to. Mine is kern.module_path: /boot/test;/boot/modules (I booted from /boot/test). But loading them in rc.local will definitely work and automate it for you. -- Gary Jennejohnhome | help
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