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

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:06:06PM +0000, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
+> jmg         2004-08-06 15:06:06 UTC
+> 
+>   FreeBSD src repository
+> 
+>   Modified files:
+>     sys/boot/common      help.common 
+>     sys/boot/forth       loader.conf 
+>   Log:
+>   remove /boot/kernel from the default path..  There is already code that
+>   will prepend the current kernel booting...  This prevents a problem of
+>   loading /boot/kernel's modules when a different kernel has no modules,
+>   but you left your module_load="YES" in loader.conf...
+>   
+>   Reviewed by:    dcs (minus the help part)

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.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
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