zentara wrote:
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.
excerpt from my litte "found in suse-linux-e" notebook: the script / command to call is "mk_initrd" run as root, the relevant variable in rc.config looks i.e (my case) like this: # # The module for initrd during boot # INITRD_MODULES="dc395x_trm usbcore ne2k-pci" just give the modul name to load, run mk_initrd afterwards, followed by a run of "lilo". The latter will rewrite the mapping info. without that the next reboot is into nirwana mode. ;-) Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq