On 2003-03-02 17:34, Michal Mertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Imagine you decided to go with modular kernel. You comment out 'device > random' in your kernel-config and place 'random_load="YES"' in > /boot/loader.conf. When you reboot and don't rebuild the kernel first, you > have your machine unbootable - at least in case you previously had acpi in > your kernel and acpi doesn't work without OS supplied dsdt (as in my > case) or you need acpi as a module or any other module. > > The way out is to boot from install CDROM, have fixit floppy, mount the > old root and remove the random.ko module. Which is pretty inconvenient, > when you don't have the medias handy. > > The problem is that I can't ask loader not to load some module. It doesn't > understand 'unset XX_load'. It doesn't work to say 'set XX_load="NO"' > either. The only way I found to make it not load the modules is to 'load > /boot/kernel/kernel;set module_path="";boot'. Unfortunately it doesn't > help me either because I need to load special acpi_dsdt.aml which isn't > then loaded either.
How about `unset XX_load' ? - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
