From pierpaolodf@libero.it Wed Feb 16 23:20:44 2000
From: pierpaolodf@libero.it
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Subject: [SLE] kmod and kerneld
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:20:44 +0100
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Suse 6.3 installation doesn't seem to autoload modules on kernel request.
I took a look at boot scripts and found out it doesn't load kerneld.
There's a doc file saying something about kmod, but i found no way to make it=
work.
Does anyone know something about it and its use?
Greetings
Pierpaolo Da Fieno
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From tomas@primenet.com Thu Feb 17 02:06:07 2000
From: tomas@primenet.com
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Subject: [SLE] Re: kmod and kerneld
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:06:07 -0800
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Pierpaolo Da Fieno wrote:
pf> Suse 6.3 installation doesn't seem to autoload modules on kernel request.
pf> I took a look at boot scripts and found out it doesn't load kerneld.
pf> There's a doc file saying something about kmod, but i found no way to mak=
e it work.
pf> Does anyone know something about it and its use?
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Take a look at the kmod.txt file in the kernel Documentation
directory. To use it you will have to recompile your kernel. Whereas
kerneld offers more functions, the average user doesn't need it, therefore
its better to use kmod as its cleaner and has a smaller memory footprint.
pf> Greetings
pf> Pierpaolo Da Fieno
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From chris.reeves@iname.com Sun Feb 20 14:54:26 2000
From: chris.reeves@iname.com
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Subject: Re: [SLE] kmod and kerneld
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:54:26 +0000
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> Pierpaolo Da Fieno wrote:
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> Suse 6.3 installation doesn't seem to autoload modules on kernel request.
> I took a look at boot scripts and found out it doesn't load kerneld.
> There's a doc file saying something about kmod, but i found no way to make =
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> work.
> Does anyone know something about it and its use?
Apologies for the late reply...
kerneld was the module loader used for the 2.0.x series of kernels. Now with
the 2.2.x series of kernels modules are usually loader by the kernel module
loader, which is compiled right into the kernel.
kerneld is actually more fully featured that the kernel module loader, but for
most people the extra features aren't necessary.
The SuSE kernel does have module support compiled into the kernel, so if that
is what you are using there shouldn't be any problems with the module
loader....
Maybe you are being tripped up by the new SuSE boot concept introduced in 6.3?
If there are any modules you want loaded at bootup, you can edit /etc/rc.conf=
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to add the module name to the variable INITRD_MODULES (I think - I don't have
6.3 myself ;-) ).
After that run mk_initrd and all should be fine.
Hope that helps,
Chris
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