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.
On 2003-03-03 17:19:05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: How about `unset XX_load' ?
:
: - Giorgos
On 2003-03-04 00:41, Michal Mertl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > How about `unset XX_load' ?
:
: It works only for acpi.
I just tried editing my /boot/loader.conf to make sure you haven't hit
upon a bug. I added this line:
ipfw_load="YES"
and rebooted. The loader loaded both /boot/kernel/kernel and ipfw.ko
as you'd expect. I then used the `unload' command and loaded only my
kernel afterwards:
OK unload
OK load /boot/kernel/kernel
OK boot -s
Voila! Only my kernel and acpi.ko were loaded. Then, without editing
my /boot/loader.conf I rebooted and inteerrupted the loader after
ipfw.ko and the kernel were loaded. I disabled ACPI with:
OK unset acpi_load
OK boot -s
Only the kernel and ipfw.ko were loaded. Then, I tried yet another
way of disabling ipfw.ko at load time, and set ipfw_load to "NO" in
my loader.conf. Only the kernel and acpi.ko were loaded.
What is it that troubles you? I'm not sure I can reproduce it.
- Giorgos
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