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To: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie, current@FreeBSD.org
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ACPI module loading.
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:10:13 +0100, David Malone wrote:
> If you boot from an old kernel then the loader seems to load the acpi
> module from the wrong place. I tried booting with both:
> 
> 	unload
> 	boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel
> and:
> 	unload
> 	load /boot/kernel.old/kernel
> 	boot
> 
> and both loaded the acpi moduse from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko. I thought
> that the loader was supposed to be clever enough to find these
> things. I suppose it could be the acpi loader, the loader or me
> which is broked.

The following is a correct way of doing this:

	unload
	boot kernel.old

This will load both kernel and modules from the correct place, i.e.
/boot/kernel.old.

-Maxim

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