Re: module installation at system boot ?

["Alexander Stagun" <alex@ascii-park.net>]

vinai wrote:

> What is the "cleanest" way to add kernel modules so they are loaded
> at boot time ?

/etc/modules


> I recently got a firewire disk and redid my kernel with all of the
> 1394 options compiled  as modules.  If I manually load the modules,
> it all works fine.  The question is how do I update my modules
> listing so they are recognized and loaded ?  I tried updating
> /etc/modules (in which I put the names "ieee1394", "ohci1394" and
> "sbp2" [which are recognized by insmod from the command line] ) and
> even adding a file with what I thought were correct entries to
> /etc/modutils.  But neither try worked at boot up ...

Putting that modules in /etc/modules should load them during boot up.
Perhaps those modules need some options or a specific load order?


Regards

-- 
Alexander Stagun