Wow....is everyone on dope or something?.........why not use this list instead of a rant...if there are those that just cannot stand using the product (which ever it may be you will find an issue) go hang out at Venice Beach with a G-string and cry about it.... Regards, Jon On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:
Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO wrote:
modules.conf was invisible to the 7.0 system with a hand compile
What are you talking about??? This file is a standard.
This file was ignored - not looked at, as i it didn't exist to the astounishment of several expereiced users.
It's functionality depends on it being initated correctly by the kernel.
mkinitrd does this for RH. This file does not exist in SuSe. Instead it is done with /etc/rc.d files.....
wrong, modules.conf is part of the modutils packages and is integral part of suse. /etc/rc.d files are part of the sys V init mechanism and has nothing to do with modules.conf.
There is no mkinitrd script in SuSE. To create initrd files under suse you use mk_initrd. It's been mentioned already:
Michael Hasenstein wrote:
??? /sbin/mk_initrd. _Very_ convenient. The entire SuSE lilo-kernel setup is one big piece of convenience: - no need for you to edit lilo.conf for installing a new kernel you made yourself, just do "make bzlilo". The old default suse kernel is always available as entry "suse" when you overwrite "linux", should you've forgotten a module or to create the initrd or the new kernel has problems for whatever other reason. - creating a config file for a new kernel is _very_ convenient: just use the working, running kernel config as input by issuing "make cloneconfig", which takes the config from the running kernel and applies it to the source tree. - mk_initrd: if you use all the above, all you ever need to do when you compile your own is make cloneconfig [maybe: menuconfig, if you want to change something] dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install; mk_initrd; lilo (if the new kernel has the _same_ version as the old one it's also a good idea to edit linux/Lakefile line 3 and add some string to EXTRAVERSION in order to avoid overwriting the existing modules directory in /lib/modules/)
-- Rafael
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