On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:59:44PM -0400, Charles Galpin wrote:
> <snip>
> > I fear I might have drug this thread on too long as it is, but I have yet
> > to try one suggestion from brother Borho - not using the io argument, or
> > calling it ioport. Perhaps I will try that tomorrow and end this ordeal :)
> <snip>
> 
> Brother Borho thinks that since the compiled in driver worked without
> providing any special 'append=' options, that you should just remove
> that line from conf.modules and try to make another boot disk :^)

sure enough it works like a charm :)
 
so, looking at mkinitrd, which is a shell script, all it does is create a
file called linuxrc with a bunch of insmod commands to load the
modules. The conf.modules options line in my case looked like

options aha1542 io=0x330

which would have resulted in a line something like

insmod /lib/aha1542.o io=0x330

which was failing - not because it couldn't find the module, but because
it didn't like the option. I guess we (ok Steve) knew this all along. Why
the 'io' option isn't liked, I still don't know. Enough already!

> BTW: How did you know I was in a fraternity in college?  :^)

I forget how it happened, but quite a while back someone refered to you as
"brother Borho" and it stuck. Glad to see you are enjoying it ;0

charles



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