[SOLVED]Re: Loading kernel modules for virtualbox via script

[Leslie Jensen]

On 2009-12-21 18:02, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> Leslie Jensen wrote:
>>
>> On 2009-12-21 17:35, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
>>> Leslie Jensen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Following the suggestion here:
>>>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=45664&postcount=5
>>>>
>>>> To load two kernel modules via a script in /etc/rc.d/
>>>>
>>>> Produces the following:
>>>>
>>>> WARNING: Ignoring old-style startup script /etc/rc.d/
>>>>
>>>> I found the answer here:
>>>>
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2896643&group_id=151951&atid=782616
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would like a suggestion on how to load the modules!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> /Leslie
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can't you load the modules from /boot/loader.conf? AFAIK VirtualBox
>>> places its modules in /boot/modules, which makes them loadable by
>>> load_modulename="YES" in /boot/loader.conf, where modulename should be
>>> replaced by the filename of the module(s), omitting the leading path and
>>> the .ko suffix, e.g. nvidia_load=YES" loads /boot/modules/nvidia.ko.
>>
>> Correction....................
>>
>> I read in the same post that the loading order was important, and the
>> way I understood it was that, if I load via loader.conf I could not be
>> sure that the order is correct!
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> If the order is important, one probably depends on the other. Try
> loading only one of them and see if it automagically loads the other one.
>
> Or I guess you could simply load them from /etc/rc.local. Though that
> is, AFAIK, no longer a recommended way to do things, it does still work.
> I start a few things from there, simply because I couldn't be bothered
> with writing an rc.d script.


You where right! One of them loaded the other so problem solved :-)

Thank you!