Re: Booting from a USB disk

[Vincent DEFERT <20.100%defert.com@localhost>]

No, I haven't changed anything else and no modules are listed in /boot.cfg.

Is there any chance it worked due to a side-effect of not loading modules?

I have previously tried: installboot /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
(i.e. without the '-o modules') but it still had the 'Heap full' error.

On 27/04/2020 06:53, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:23:03PM +0200, Vincent DEFERT wrote:
> > Here is the output of modstat in single user mode:
> >
> > NAME                       CLASS    SOURCE   FLAG  REFS    SIZE REQUIRES
> > aac                        driver   builtin  -        1       - pci
> So no modules loaded - and the installboot change was the only thing that
> you changed?
>
> Are there any modules listed in your /boot.cfg?
>
> Something (and I have no clue what that could be) must have tried to load
> modules, which then failed with the out of memory message. Now you have
> inhibited module loading and it works.
>
> However, nothing in a default install should cause modules to be loaded
> this early (AFICT).
>
> Martin