Re: port-amd64/47773: hal not working even enabled in rc.conf

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/47773; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-amd64/47773: hal not working even enabled in rc.conf
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:14:06 +0000

 On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:05:01AM +0000, passionfire007%gmail.com@localhost 
wrote:
  > I am using the above described system with xfce4 as a desktop OS,
  > hal is enabled in rc.conf as below.
 
 Did you copy hal's rc.d script into /etc/rc.d?
 
 It is annoying that this is required, but it is. You can make a
 symbolic link instead of a copy, but only if /usr/pkg and / are the
 same volume. (There are some other knobs you can set instead, but
 let's get it working first.)
 
 The reason for all this is that the rc.d/* scripts are scanned early
 in boot, before any volume besides / is mounted; so all rc.d scripts
 need to be on the boot volume.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost