Re: booting modular kernel

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Oct 6,  6:01pm, Antoine Reilles wrote:
} On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:33:55PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
} > On Oct 6,  2:43pm, Jan-Hinrich Fessel wrote:
} > }
} > } Is it documented somewhere that one needs to tell the bootloader to  
} > } enable modules?
} > 
} >      No, for the simple reason that you don't need to do that.  If you
} > use a new enough version of /boot and modules are available, it will
} > automatically load the appropriate filesystem module.
} 
} It would still be nice to have some sort of doc about that, in order for
} instance to be able to boot a modular kernel with grub directly, instead
} of having to rely on chainloading the netbsd loader.

     MULTIBOOT (the grub way of booting) doesn't support modules yet.

}-- End of excerpt from Antoine Reilles