What is the fedora way of setting a kernel module to load at boot time?

Stuart stuart at sjsears.com
Sun Jan 25 01:33:55 UTC 2009


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
[...]
> One thing to keep in mind is that the module is not going to get
> loaded until the root file system gets mounted. If you need the
> module loaded before that, you can include it in the initrd. You
> would list it in /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd. (I don't remember the
> exact format.)

you set the MODULES variable, which is picked up by mkinitrd.

MODULES="intelfb"

or similar. Multiple modules are space separated inside the quotes.


Regards,

Stuart
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