[CentOS] Re: add new module in initrd

Mon Aug 20 10:36:16 UTC 2007
beast <beast at ldap.or.id>

On 18/08/07 01:26 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>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/
>

Thanks for the link, I'll check it. anyway i have been able to avoid RTL8169
chipset, so it may useful for another cases :)


--beast


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