Trevin Beattie <trevin@xmission.com> writes:

  Second, if I run modload in
>/etc/rc.local (both XFree86-3.1.1 and XFree86-3.1.2, ap.o and ap-current.o),
>the kernel panics, dumps, and reboots.

This can happen if you have a kernel named /netbsd, but boot a
different kernel.  Anything that uses kvm will break in this case; but
LKMs are especially susceptible.
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