Re: problem with loading all fixed now

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Chuck Robey wrote:
Chuck Robey wrote:
Ben Kaduk wrote:

cat nvidia_load="YES"" >> /boot/loader.conf
I'd never heard that about it needing absolutely to load at boot time, but
you were absolutely right, I have it working now.

It also made my loading problem (I don't know if I complained on hackers
about that or not). No, in looking back to by send-cache, I don't think I
did, Immediately after I finally got all my raid array proboems fixed, I
found really that there was only 1 remaining: booting my raid.

I have definitely the boot-manager loaded onto ad1 (my 100G emergency eide
disk) and da0 (my raid). I normally would strike f1 to load the eide for
emergencies, and f5, then f1, to load from the raid. Well, now, no matter
what I press, I load from the eide disk. If I intercept the boot at the
beastie menu, and press 6 to get into the loader, I find currdev is
_always_ set to disk1s1a (the eide, ad1). If I want to boot the raid, I
need to manually do a "set currdev=disk2s1a" then unload, then load the
kernel AND manually load all the modules, because loder.conf isn't getting
read either.

Once I went thru all that, the nvidia driver worked fine, as you predicted,
any notion why the loading has gone screwey? I can add one thing: When I
initially installed the system, I was just coming back from using Linux for
some years, and I forgot that while Linux is in love with using a small
/boot partition to store the kernels and the bootloader, FreeBSD isn't. I
had stuck the /boot only onto da1s1d, with my root onto da0s1a. I was
loading my root via /etc/fstab, I thought, but in fact, I had an old
version of a just-useable boot onto myu da1s1a, and that was what was
actually booting. When I got rid of the /boot mount line in fstab, and
expected things to work ok, this odd refusal to correctly boot from
disk2s1a began.

Well, found 50% of the problems, my device,hints had a line mis-setting
currdev, once I fixed that, it now boots from the right disk. One booting
problem remaining: it won't read my /boot/loader.conf. simple file, 2
whole lines:

I found that my linker.hints was loading one module, so (thinks I) why not
try to load them all there, and it workedd like a charm. My loader.conf
isn't working now, but it really doesn't bother me all that much.

I have only a single problem remaining, it's a audio one, so I am off to
the multimedia list, and I thank you for letting me lean on you whilst I
stewed in my problems. They all seem to come to me in big waves, never one
at a time, and it's not even a thing of one problme having multiple
symptoms, they each had t heir own fix. God is watching me and having a
nice chuckle over this, I guess.

TCSH-april:chuckr:~:#101-12:50>cat /boot/loader.conf
linux_load="YES"
nvidia_load="YES"

that's all, but when (in the loader, preboot) I execute the read-conf
command to force it to read the file, it comes back with a syntax error,
saying exactly this:

"
^

That's it, the single (double) quote, and a caret in column 1 beneath that.
Noting else. Could it maybe be something to do with what zi have in
rc.conf? I have a line in rc.conf, linux_enable="YES", that's ok along
with the loader line, right?

Any idea here? Booting is a real drag now.

thanks!


-Ben Kaduk

OK, I'm not giving my ldconfig problem to you folks, its quite likely its a
FreeBSD-current problem, so let those folks handle that one.

Boy, I feel like the little boy who cried wolf!


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