Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Mar 1998 13:18:37 -0500 (EST) | From | Greg Zornetzer <> | Subject | Re: kmod fix & rc.S |
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On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Shaw Carruthers wrote:
> > Thanks for this. It works for me loading lp & slip, but I then got an > oops, probably for the reasons others have outlined. > > I had to change the code to have kmod on by default otherwise my system > wouldn't start. > > The problem is that I have Slackware style startup scripts and kmod must > be active before I fsck and mount any filesystems. At this point proc is > not mounted so I have to have kmod active by default. Should this be a > config option? When I made that change, I was just being ultra-paranoid. As long as we can be certain that kmod will fail gracefully (which it should) if /sbin/modprobe doesn't exist, then I don't really see a problem with setting modprobe_path="" initially, and changing it to /sbin/modprobe in kmod_init > -- > Shaw Carruthers - shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk > London SW14 7JW UK > This is not a sig( with homage to Magritte).
Greg Zornetzer - gaz+@andrew.cmu.edu "Light shines brightest in the darkest night" http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~gaz
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