On 28 Mar 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > The new initscripts seems to call sysctl when "Configuring kernel
> > parameters", but note that if a modeules.dep does not exist I think this
> > will fail or cause problems.
>
> configuring kernel parameters is only for setting thing in /proc/
> (like hostname, or ipv4 broadcast).
Still, sysctl might need some modules (unix.o apparently)
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> > The dependency list is not generated until sometime later in the
> > boot process, and I think that it is important that it be generated
> > as soon as possible before initscripts try to do anything else. This
> > is particularly harmfull to me as I have compiled unix.o as a module
> > and most everything likes to use unix sockets.
>
> right, why not just run depmod -a before reboot ?
You can't before reboot, right, because it will use the current kernel and
not the one you just installed. And if that could be done, then why
wouldn't you do "depmod -a" after installing the kernel RPM? So, if that
can't be done, our next step is to do "depmod -a" from initscripts, which
we do, but not soon enough. My suggestion was to call it first, before
anything else, or somethings will fail as I have mentioned.
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