Re: loading module on boot

[David Zelinsky <dzpost@dedekind.net>]

Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com> writes:
>
[..]
> >>>On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 00:18:26 -0400, David Zelinsky wrote:
> >>>[..]
> >>>
> >>>>The ide-cd entry in /etc/modules-2.6 _is_ getting read, because it
> >>>>prints something in the boot messages saying it's loading ide-cd.  But
> >>>>either the load is failing for some reason, or it's getting unloaded by
> >>>>some other script.
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>
> I would suggest looking into the /etc/rc?.d directories and determine
> what sequence of scripts is run as your system boots.  On my system,
> the module-init-tools script is run from /etc/rcS.d as
> S20module-init-tools. You could add this to the beginning of each
> subsequent script:
> 
>    lsmod|grep -q ide_cd || echo lost it in $0
> 
> to figure out when in the sequence it disappears.  This should narrow
> down where you need to look.

Thanks, that was a good suggestion!  I had grepped through
/etc/init.d/* but didn't find anything obvious.  Using the above trick
I discovered that /etc/init.d/rcS called a script in /etc/boot.d that
called a script elsewhere in /etc that removed ide-cd, left over from
when I was using a 2.4 kernel and needed to use scsi emulation, or
something like that.  Anyway, not it works!

-David