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Re: mkinitrd error
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:58:19PM +0200, Mike Almogy wrote:
> > (I still like to know if threre is a tool that creates the /etc/conf.modules
> > file)
>
> RedHat's configuration tools and Kudzu do their
> best to match the PCI device IDs to proper modules
> and add them to conf.modules. With ISA, it doesn't
> (mostly can't) setup anything yet automatically.
>
> Anyway, just write up some module and no tool would
> know what device file (major/minor numbers, char/block)
> it matches. You cannot automatize that.
There's a way to create the conf.modules in one fell swoop:
depmod -a && modprobe -c | grep -v '^path'>/etc/conf.modules
Et voila! You'll never have to worry about module dependencies until the
next kernel compile.
Cheers,
Henry
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