SuSE 8.1 boot modules control

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 05 February 2003 21:53 pm, Bill Campbell wrote:
> I'm still climbing the learning curve on SuSE 8.1, trying to figure
> out the GUI way of life instead of just digging into the configuration
> files.  I learned about the runlevel editor (which is really pretty
> slick), and have been playing with creating rc.startup scripts to take
> advantage of its dependency controls.
>
> I'm stumped now trying to figure out how to get it to load the
> ieee1394 modules automatically at boot.  If I do a ``modprobe
> ohci1394'' once the system's running, it loads all the appropriate
> modules so I can mount firewire disks.
>

You can place a modprobe command in the bottom of the 
/etc/init.d/boot.local  file - but what I usually do is to make up a 
/etc/init.d/rc.local file and invoke it from the boot.local file.


> In Caldera 3.1.1 and earlier, all this required was editing the
> /etc/modules/default file, and it Just Worked(tm) from then on.
>
> A second part of this is how to make new initrd files including
> different modules than those selected at installation time.
>

Go change /etc/sysconfig/kernel ---> INITRD_MODULES="<your module list>"

and then run mk_initrd.



> Bill

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