Re: modconf and boot floppies; closing rc bug #51015
>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au> writes:
Greg> On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 09:33:31PM +1100, Greg Schafer wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 01:10:39AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
>> > In several test runs i've done recently, the latest modconf seems to work ok
>> > with 2.2 kernels. there are still some annoying points which i hope to fix,
>> > but they are mostly cosmetic.
>>
>> One small bug I noticed in my tests is that the "/target/etc/modules.conf" file
>> is not being updated with the module that I loaded during the dbootstrap run.
>>
>> eg: I normally select the 'ne2k-pci' module during install. This normally
>> results in 'ne2k-pci' being appended to /etc/modules.conf on the target system.
>>
>> This didn't happen in my tests resulting in a non-functioning network upon the
>> first reboot.
>>
>> This only started happening with the latest modconf.
Greg> Doh! Of course I meant /target/etc/modules (not modules.conf)
What it did to me was write the module to "modules", but not the
command line for the module that I specified in the dialog. It
obviously ran the `modprobe' with them, because without them it
failed. Since the argument list isn't put in "modules", the modprobe
at reboot failed.
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