docs/86733: [patch] Add using kldload as an alternative to compiling in gbde in your kernel

[Josh Paetzel]

>Number:         86733
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] Add using kldload as an alternative to compiling in gbde in your kernel
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 29 22:20:14 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Josh Paetzel
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:


System: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #8: Fri Sep  9 16:38:25 CDT 2005
    jpaetzel at gimpy.tcbug.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GIMPY



>Description:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html explains how to recompile your kernel with options GEOM_BDE but doesn't mention that there is a kernel module (geom_bde) available.


>How-To-Repeat:


Browse http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html



>Fix:


--- chapter.sgml.old    Thu Sep 29 16:44:10 2005
+++ chapter.sgml        Thu Sep 29 17:02:02 2005
@@ -3543,6 +3543,25 @@

          <para>Reboot into the new kernel.</para>
        </step>
+
+    <step>
+        <title>Load gbde(4) support using
+        <application>kldload</application>
+        </title>
+
+        <para>An alternative to recompiling your kernel is to use
+            <application>kldload</application> to load the gbde(4)
+            kernel module dynamically.
+            <screen>&prompt.root;
+                <userinput>kldload geom_bde
+                </userinput>
+            </screen>
+        </para>
+
+        <para>At this time there is no option in
+            <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>
+            to load the kernel module at boot time
+        </para>
       </procedure>
     </sect2>




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