Keith Owens wrote:
>
> 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.
That makes sense. Now I have to wonder why I never noticed the modprobe
error on other kernels since I always enable kmod.
D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
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