On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > Figuring one of the things a friend of mine raves about Linux for is their
> > kld's, I'd start playing with ours...
> >
> > Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove
> > "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ...
> >
> > crashes...
> >
> > so, I figure that I somehow have to tell the kernel to load that module?
>
> fs modules are automagically loaded. Alas, that's the general
> direction for a lot of modules. The network ones, for instance. No
> more need to put in the device lines in the kernel configuration
> file, it will be automagically loaded by ifconfig. I don't know if
> this is working already or not, though.
>
> Now, how to tell the kernel to load modules. Well, some stuff you
> can set with rc.conf(5). Other stuff you may load explicitly through
> kldload. And, finally, you don't need to have the _kernel_ load it.
> You may edit loader.conf(5) to have it loaded at the same time the
> kernel is loaded by, well, the loader(8). :-) (the bootstrap loader)
>
> > checked the kld man page, and nothing in there appears to be
> > appropriate...and just looked at my /usr/src/etc/rc* files to see if maybe
> > it was something I was supposed to configure in there, but nothing appears
> > to be in tehre either...
> >
> > Help?
>
> Wild shot: are your kernel & world in sync? For isntance, you made a
> new kernel when you edited your kernel configuration file to remove
> the option line, right? If you just happened to have newer sources,
> the new kernel might have become incompatible with the older
> modules, which are not made automatically (except during world). cd
> /sys/modules; make all install.
This one is probably it *sigh*
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