On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:44:38PM +0200, David Sapir wrote: > > > > >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?
When you loop-mount a filesystem you actually run losetup and then mount a filesystem from the loop device that was created. IIRC the loop module depends on the aes module, and thus merely loop-mounting loads the aes module. And even if not, you can add a rule in modules.conf to run 'modprobe aes' before loading the module loop . -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
