On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:46:23AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > If you're using the default Debian kernel, it loads all of the modules > from the initrd, before it even mounts root. > > If you want to see what's going on, run: > > mount -oloop /initrd.img /mnt > > and look in /mnt. It's a cramfs, which is read-only. The loadmodules > script shows you all of the modules that are loaded on boot. > > If you want to change this stuff, you need to do this: > > mkdir /tmp/initrd > cp -a /mnt/* /tmp/initrd > edit scripts in /tmp/initrd as needed. > mkcramfs /tmp/initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.21-3-686-mine > Change the /initrd.img symlink to point to /boot/initrd.img-2.4.21-3-686-mine > Run lilo. > Reboot. > > I do this to force the loading of hardware RAID modules on boot, but you > can remove the IDE modules this way also. Looks good. Because I use self-compiled kernel from Debian source, I'd rather rekompile the kernel with only one IDE module. :-) Thanks Mody
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