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Date:      Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:41:53 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common help.common src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf
Message-ID:  <20040809124153.GN628@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200408061506.i76F66sl018247@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200408061506.i76F66sl018247@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:06:06PM +0000, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
+> jmg         2004-08-06 15:06:06 UTC
+>=20
+>   FreeBSD src repository
+>=20
+>   Modified files:
+>     sys/boot/common      help.common=20
+>     sys/boot/forth       loader.conf=20
+>   Log:
+>   remove /boot/kernel from the default path..  There is already code that
+>   will prepend the current kernel booting...  This prevents a problem of
+>   loading /boot/kernel's modules when a different kernel has no modules,
+>   but you left your module_load=3D"YES" in loader.conf...
+>  =20
+>   Reviewed by:    dcs (minus the help part)

If kernel name is given for the 'boot' command, '/boot/<kernname>' path is
probably added to kern.module_path, but for normal boot process it is not,
so kern.module_path is set only to "/boot/modules".
Some applications depend on this sysctl and they don't work properly now.
Please fix.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
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