Re: Monolithic kernels and init scripts

[scr <whoknows@onlinehome.de>]

Ethan Benson schrieb:
> 
> its true that the tests used in the kerneld initscript is flawed,
> it checks for /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe which will not exist in
> two cases:
> 
> 1) your running 2.0 kernels, and thus need kerneld
> 2) your running 2.2 without loadable module support.
> 
> the flawed assumption here is that nobody will ever build a kernel not
> supporting modules. [...]

Thank you very much for your suggestions and the patch against
/etc/init.d/kerneld you supplied. Well, for your patch: this
doesn´t apply cleanly to my (plain potato) kerneld script, but
I got the idea. ;-)

The source of my troubles with the modutils script might be the
fact that I tried to boot my hand-rolled kernel from another
directory than /boot (the other script I complained about,
/etc/init.d/modutils, seems to get fooled because /boot is
present, but I´m not booting from there).

> feel free to file a bug against modutils with this patch.

Not in the current state of my research/newbieness/whatever.

Thanks again,
scr