On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:15:23 +0530 ajit jain <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Thanks for replying Paul. > > My driver will be loaded at the boot time itself, just after the root > file-system mounts in the read-only mode. Suppose there is bug in the > driver due to which the system is panicing, and since the driver is > loading at the boot time, it will cause the system to panic in all > the subsequent boot cycle. To avoid such issue I'll bypass the driver > loading by supplying "do not load the driver" as an argument to the > boot options. So, in the rc scripts I need to check whether the > system is boot with the by-pass mode of the driver. Gday Ajit, If you add -Bdisable-sd=true to your kernel$ line in grub, then the sd(7d) driver will be disabled. Replace "sd" with your driver name to achieve a similar result. That's the best way that I know of to prevent loading a driver which is panicing on boot. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
