[CentOS] Re: add new module in initrd

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Sat Aug 18 06:26:30 UTC 2007


beast wrote:
> On 15/08/07 17:38 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:23 +0700, beast wrote:
>>> On 14/08/07 07:26 +0200, maze at cela.pl wrote:
>>> >one of the files /linuxrc should list what modules get loaded on start.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the hint. Where linuxrc located? i already searched initrd
>>> image
>>> and can not found it.
>>
>> Looks like the script "init" in the top level does the job.  I would
>> expect mkinitrd to generate it automatically if you add a module, but
>> one should be able to modify it if doing the job manually.
> 
> /init is executable file, statically linked. Any other hints please? i've
> been googling around and no clue so far :(
> Looks like nobody willing to customize the boot image, and prefer to
> wait the
> new release and hoping it will be supported...
> 

This site has lots of good info about creating driver disks and might
help you:

http://people.redhat.com/linville/ddiskit/

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