>Number: 86733
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Add using kldload as an alternative to compiling in gbde in your kernel
>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: Thu Sep 29 22:20:14 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Josh Paetzel
>Release: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #8: Fri Sep 9 16:38:25 CDT 2005
jpaetzel@gimpy.tcbug.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GIMPY
>Description:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html explains how to recompile your kernel with options GEOM_BDE but doesn't mention that there is a kernel module (geom_bde) available.
>How-To-Repeat:
Browse http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html
>Fix:
--- chapter.sgml.old Thu Sep 29 16:44:10 2005
+++ chapter.sgml Thu Sep 29 17:02:02 2005
@@ -3543,6 +3543,25 @@
<para>Reboot into the new kernel.</para>
</step>
+
+ <step>
+ <title>Load gbde(4) support using
+ <application>kldload</application>
+ </title>
+
+ <para>An alternative to recompiling your kernel is to use
+ <application>kldload</application> to load the gbde(4)
+ kernel module dynamically.
+ <screen>&prompt.root;
+ <userinput>kldload geom_bde
+ </userinput>
+ </screen>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>At this time there is no option in
+ <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>
+ to load the kernel module at boot time
+ </para>
</procedure>
</sect2>
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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