[NTLUG:Discuss] Messed modules_install

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Davidson" <gorky at ispwest.com>
To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Messed modules_install


> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Stephen Davidson" <gorky at ispwest.com>
> > To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 8:03 AM
> > Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Messed modules_install
> >
> >
> >
> [snip]
> >
> >
> > Does it run OK once booted?
> >
> > What does /etc/modules.conf look like?
> >
> Hi Thomas.
>
> Once I get one of the stock kernels properly booted,
> yes, it runs ok.  But the stock kernels are missing
> support for about half the hardware.  Also,
> powermanagement support is missing, which is kind of
> desired as the the system in question is a laptop.
>
> As for /etc/modules.conf, what I am I looking for?
>
> I have not modified it since it was installed with
> the stock kernel.
>
> Regards,
> Steve

I just wondered what it looked like - it sounds as though the kernel module
loader might be trying to load modules which you've compiled into the kernel
statically.

I would recompile, and compile everything as a module that you don't need to
boot.  Then make sure you make an initrd.  man mkinitrd.
--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
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