Re: Start kerneld earlier?
Frank Neumann writes:
> I was wondering why in Debian the kerneld is started so late? It could
It's optional.
> be started even before the local filesystems get mounted, which would
> (in my case) remove the need to specify a list of modules that are to
> be pre-loaded (like the affs filesystem).
Just enter `auto' on a line by itself in /etc/modules and kerneld is started
when the modules file is examined.
> For an example, the german Suse distribution starts it right after activation
> of swap and checking of the root partition (and remounting it r/w).
> Could we do the same?
See above. The problem with this is that some messages by kerneld will not
be logged correctly until syslog is started.
Michael
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