Zentara, that did it, I ran the mk_initrd program and then lilo as suggested ... rebooted and it loaded the correct driver! (card still didnt work as it wasnt being allocated an irq but some fiddling in the bios fixed that!) great! ....thanks all! Tim
Tim Hempstead wrote:
People,
I'm having a bit of a problem with a boxes. I would like to upgrade its network card from 10mb to 100mb. .... i put in the new cards and boot up. The system boots fine but gives errors against the network card driver load as of course the card has changed ... i edit conf.modules so that the alias points at the new driver module and the line in rc.config which had the module name in as well (right at the top i think it has something to do with loading modules v. early in the boot sequence....) .... when i reboot it still fails to come up properly appearing to load the old module still....? huh?
Maybe you need to do a mk.initrd? To make a new initrd for lilo to use. You probably should run lilo once after mk.initrd, just to be sure. mk.initrd reads the rc.config file and builds a new ram disk image using the initrd modules specified in rc.config
Another alternative is to drop initrd out of lilo.conf and rebuild a kernel with your new module built in.
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