(1) initrd + aha1542 (2) /etc/mkinitrd/modules

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

    1. initrd + aha1542
  I am failing to convert a kernel with aha1542 builtin into an initrd 
one because of the aha1542 module. Eventually I got initrd to prompt for
a shell. Within that shell I was trying to insmod the aha1542 module 
manually and get:

  # insmod aha1542=0x134
  Using
  /lib/modules/2.4.20-5.custom586.3/kernel/arch/cpuid.o/aha1542=0x134
  insmod:
  /lib/modules/2.4.20-5.custom586.3/kernel/arch/cpuid.o/aha1542=0x134:
  Not a directory

How come this path is looked on? Am I doing something wrong or is it a
bug in the module?
  The kernel is compiled with make-kpkg and the source was obtained from
the kerne-source-2.4.20-5 package.


    2. The format of /etc/mkinitrd/modules
  According to the example for wd8003 in /etc/mkinitrd/modules and to
the mkinitrd man page, 

                                      You can also specify modules
   to load by putting them in confdir/modules, whose format is identical
   to that of /etc/modules, which is described in modules(5).
					 
Is this correct? Isn't the format of confdir/modules is like the one of
the kernel bootparam, which is different from /etc/modules?

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    Shaul Karl, shaulka@bezeqint.n e t