[driver-discuss] How do I turn off the boot-archive check on boot-up?

[Andrew Gallatin]

Masa Murayama wrote:

 > I'm developping nic drivers. I don't put my drivers into /kernel/drv
 > directory when they aren't  stable. Instead of that, I load the drivers
 > into kernel space explicitly by using "modload my_driver".

Does your /kernel/drv/my_driver.conf file get re-read when
just using modload?   If not, is there a way to force a re-read
in some other way?

FWIW, I do sort of the same thing as you, except I softlink my drivers
into /kernel/drv and use add_drv / rem_drv.  My method worked great
when I started on S10GA before the evil bootarchive.  But with
bootarchive, I have problems rebooting similar to the OP.  My
workaround is to just always make sure I have a working serial
console (which I tend to want for kmdb anway).

Drew