Re: Force Kickstart NOT to load a module

[Philip Rowlands <phr doc ic ac uk>]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Sean P. Kane wrote:

>My install is failing when Kickstart tries to load the aic7xxxx driver,
>which I don't need for the install and know is fixed in later kernel
>updates that I apply during the %post section. Is there any way to force
>kickstart not to load this driver, even if it thinks it should (Non of
>my disks are on the motherboard based SCSI it is detecting.

Possibly "noprobe", see
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-bootopts.html

You could cheat and remove the module from the installer kernel somehow,
or use the fixed, updated kernel-BOOT package to rebuild the stage1
installer.

Can you pass any arguments to the driver to work around the lockups:
$ modinfo `locate aic7xxx.o`


Cheers,
Phil