Force a module to load at kickstart time

Brian Long brilong at cisco.com
Fri Feb 20 18:53:54 UTC 2004


device eth <module>

This should be inside your ks.cfg on the floppy or inside initrd.  If
you're using ks=nfs/ftp/http, I don't know how to specify it, but there
may be an option in syslinux.cfg you can pass to loader.

/Brian/

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 13:42, Jesse Keating wrote:
> I've got an issue where I need a module to pre-load.  It's a network 
> card module.  The boot kernel doesn't detect that the nic is there, but 
> if you load the module, the nic works just fine.  I need a way to tell 
> this module to load at the install prompt.  Is this possible?  TIA!
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