> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent Stewart writes:
>
> The sysctl code in rc IMO needs to be executed earlier. If one is
> having problems reading from an ATA boot disk, e.g. cannot load init or
> rc, these modes need to be set earlier. Why not a boot flag that sets
> atamodes to be as conservative as possible, that could be set in
> loader.conf. I see in the loader(8) man page that some sysctl
> variables can be set in loader.conf. Can atamodes be set in
> loader.conf? If not, maybe it should.
Yes, this is it in a nutshell. All of the suggestions so far are good,
but they come to late in the boot sequence to fix this problem.
Jim Weeks
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