Re: Loading 3w-xxxx module from initrd.img at boot time?

[Daniel Nilsson <daniel@oden.homeip.net>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:13:07PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Hello
> 
> The standard kernel-image-2.6 does not automatically load the 3w-xxxx
> driver needed for the 3ware (P)ATA RAID controller.
>  
> While browsing the corresponding initrd image (mount with "-t cramfs")
> I found the module present in /lib though.
>  
> Is there any way to tell the kernel to load this module before trying to
> mount the real rootfs?
> 
Christian,

You can try adding the name of the module to:

/etc/mkinitrd/modules

and rerunning mkinitrd (mkinitrd -o <name of initrd image>)

Then when you mount the initrd image again before rebooting you can
look at the loadmodules script (I think it was called that) in the
root of the initrd image to make sure your module is called out there.

/Daniel