SuSE 8.1 boot modules control

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:50:50PM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>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.

I sorta figure that's cheating, and that SuSE would have a GUI method of
dealing with this.

>
>> 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.

Thanks.

Bill
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