From: Shlomi Loubaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Sapir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: loading moduled at boot time Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:35:48 +0000
David Sapir wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for a way to load modules at boot time. I have a strong feeling
> that I should write somethins in /ets/modules.conf . I don't know what to
> write there and the man page did not help me much. Googling did not help
> either.
> I know of the option to use initrd, but I'm trying to avoid that. It will
> be my last resourt.
> Thanks,
> David.
The question is : at what specific part of boot time do you want to load the
module? if that doesn't matter to you, you can simply write the module's name
in the file /etc/modules (in most distributions).
Shlomi.
I know the modules have to be loaded before mounting local file system. One of the file systems is encrypted, and I need to load the encryption modules. I noticed this mount is done in the middle of the file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit . When is the file /etc/modules executed? If I don't have this file (/etc/modules) should I just create it?
It seems that file /etc/modules only exist on Debian systems, right? I thought I mentioned it, but I'm using RH9 system.
I found a reference in file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for the file /etc/rc.modules . Should I use this file? What is the syntax in this file? There is no man page for this file.
Thanks, David.
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