Bug#5277: etc/init.d/boot loads modules AFTER running fsck

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Craig Sanders) wrote:
> Package: sysvinit       
> Version: 2.66-1
> 
> /etc/init.d/boot loads modules after running fsck.  This means that any
> filesystems which need a module (e.g. scsi driver, loopback driver, etc)
> will not be fsck-ed.

Indeed.

> problem will probably not be noticed by most people but will affect,
> e.g., people who boot from IDE and also have scsi drives or crypto
> filesystem etc.

But if you load the modules before the fsck, root is read-only and you
cannot run depmod. So you can't upgrade modules anymore..

I'll have to think about this for a while.

Mike.
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