On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:50:50PM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: >On Wednesday 05 February 2003 21:53 pm, Bill Campbell wrote: >> I'm still climbing the learning curve on SuSE 8.1, trying to figure >> out the GUI way of life instead of just digging into the configuration >> files. I learned about the runlevel editor (which is really pretty >> slick), and have been playing with creating rc.startup scripts to take >> advantage of its dependency controls. >> >> I'm stumped now trying to figure out how to get it to load the >> ieee1394 modules automatically at boot. If I do a ``modprobe >> ohci1394'' once the system's running, it loads all the appropriate >> modules so I can mount firewire disks. >> > >You can place a modprobe command in the bottom of the >/etc/init.d/boot.local file - but what I usually do is to make up a >/etc/init.d/rc.local file and invoke it from the boot.local file.
I sorta figure that's cheating, and that SuSE would have a GUI method of dealing with this. > >> In Caldera 3.1.1 and earlier, all this required was editing the >> /etc/modules/default file, and it Just Worked(tm) from then on. >> >> A second part of this is how to make new initrd files including >> different modules than those selected at installation time. >> > >Go change /etc/sysconfig/kernel ---> INITRD_MODULES="<your module list>" > >and then run mk_initrd. Thanks. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise,'' said Cash McCall, ``but when one of our citizens show enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do our best to make him feel that he ought to be ashamed of himself.'' -- Cameron Hawley _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
