docs/158992: loader.conf man page

wayne mitchell wayne.mitchell.iz at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 09:30:13 UTC 2011


>Number:         158992
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       loader.conf man page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 17 09:30:12 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     wayne mitchell
>Release:        8.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSd 8.1-RELEASE #(date) root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
man page for loader.conf shows values to set with examples
value for 'kernel' is incorrect
man page shows:

kernel  (''/boot/kernel/kernel'')

this does not work, the system prepends this value with the /boot/kernel/ path value, which would give /boot/kernel//boot/kernel/kernel
not sure what purpose this value has as the system boots with the standard kernel even when this value is incorrect - though it does knock out the module loading 

>How-To-Repeat:
set value in loader.conf as:
kernel="/boot/kernel/kernel"
this should knock out module loading (is all i noticed)
>Fix:
set value in loader.conf as:
kernel="kernel"

and correct the man page

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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