Re: Heads up: new boot loader required for x86

[Andrew Doran <ad%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:39:56PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 03:43:46PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If you are running i386/amd64 and use GENERIC, please 'cp /usr/mdec/boot /'
> > after a build with the latest sources. It will be needed so that the boot
> > loader can pick up a kernel module to handle the root file system.
> 
> Will it try to load a kernel module, even for non-MODULAR kernels ?

Yes. It will do no harm though. You can disable it with 'modules disabled'
in boot.cfg.

Andrew