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Re: mkinitrd, ramdisk failure?

To: stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: mkinitrd, ramdisk failure?
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:23:10 +1000
Cc: "XFS: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:13:09 CST." <3B295315.E65F8920@idcomm.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:13:09 -0600, 
"D. Stimits" <stimits@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:06:19 -0600,
>> "D. Stimits" <stimits@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >Interesting that it is not there. Wouldn't modprobe be normal on
>> >mkinitrd?
>> 
>> Only on a full blown install ramdisk.  End users with initrd are
>> assumed to be using a tuned list of modules.  mkinitrd inserts explicit
>> insmod commands in linuxrc, based on the modules you specify during
>> mkinitrd.  modprobe is only useful when you do not know ahead of time
>> which modules you will be using.
>
>So I have to wonder then why this install based mkinitrd.xfs is asking
>for modprobe? Is that a bug in the mkinitrd.xfs that it attempts to use
>modprobe?

As I said in a previous mail, you compiled the kernel for automatic
module loading (kmod).  It is kmod inside the kernel that is invoking
modprobe, looking for the module to do scsi_hostadaptor.  That has
nothing to do with mkinitrd.


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