RE: Force Kickstart NOT to load a module

["Sean P. Kane" <spkane genomatica com>]

Thanks. I ended up going ahead and doing the "right" thing by updating
the floppy image with the newer BOOT kernel files, etc. and if the
process adding the dpt_i2o and sd_mod drivers so that I could install to
my Adaptec 3200s raid card without doing some insmods in the %pre
section. Figuring out that I needed sd_mod took a good solid
day....argh.....

Sean

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Sean P. Kane
spkane genomatica com
Lead Infrastructure Architect
Genomatica, Inc.
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"When we destroy something man has created we call it vandalism......
 When we destroy something that Gaia has created we call it progress."


-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Rowlands [mailto:phr doc ic ac uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 18:00
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Force Kickstart NOT to load a module


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-b
ootopts.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



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