Module option not honored when booting FC4

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 08:44 +0200, Per Thomas Jahr wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 20:44 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:37 +0200, Per Thomas Jahr wrote:
> > > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > I need to pass the option "disable_irm=1" to the ieee1394 module at boot
> > > time. I was told to add this to /etc/modprobe.conf:
> > > 
> > > options ieee1394 disable_irm=1
> > > 
> > > This option is used when I manually do modprobe ieee1394 but not when
> > > the system boots. 
> > > 
> > > How can I get the option to be used when I boot my system?
> > > 
> > > #uname -r
> > > 2.6.11-1.1381_FC5

This is a rawhide kernel by the way; are you really running FC4?

> > 
> > Is this module included in your initrd? If so, you may need to recreate
> > your initrd after changing modprobe.conf options.
> 
> How can I find out if the ieee1394 module is included in initrd?

Try this:

$ gunzip -c /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1381_FC5.img | cpio -t

This will list the files in your initrd. See if there's a
lib/ieee1394.ko

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>