cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common help.common src/sys/boot/forth loader.conf

[John-Mark Gurney]

Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote this message on Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 14:41 +0200:
> 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.

Have you verified this is a problem?  On my test box that has:
defaults/loader.conf:module_path="/boot/modules"        # Set the module search path

and was booted:
[...]
/boot/kernel/accf_http.ko text=0xb84 data=0x150+0x4 syms=[0x4+0x310+0x4+0x334]

Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...               

(i.e. normal boot process w/ no interaction)

My sysctl returns:
-bash-2.05b$ sysctl kern.module_path
kern.module_path: /boot/kernel;/boot/modules

Please include complete information of the breakage that this change
is suppose to cause.

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