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Re: Module loading problems

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Subject: Re: Module loading problems
From: Dave Sill <ds-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 28 Mar 2001 11:07:05 -0500
In-reply-to: Keith Owens's message of "Thu, 29 Mar 2001 01:52:07 +1000"
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Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Unless you are building a kernel that has to run on multiple machines
> with different hardware (i.e. a distribution) I strongly recommend that
> you do not use mkinitrd.  Build your root driver and filesystem into
> the kernel,

How? Via "make xconfig"? Do I just do "lsmod" and configure the listed
modules into the kernel?

> load other objects as modules after boot and forget initrd.
> It is good for distributors but a pain in the neck for everybody else.

So what could be causing the modules not to load?

> Use modprobe loop, not insmod /full/path/name.o.

OK, will do. I presume the boot process does the right thing, though,
and it gets the same errors.

-Dave

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