Bug#557439: modules in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules cannot load firmware

2010-02-28 Thread Craig Sanders
i got the radeon firmware to load by editing /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init and moving the lines that run the init-premount scripts from just after to just before the lines that load the modules. see attached patch. it's probably not a good generic solution, but as a quick hack to solve this par

Bug#557439: modules in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules cannot load firmware

2009-11-21 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: normal Modules added to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules are loaded by load_modules call in init. However, udevd is not started until "run_scripts /scripts/init-premount" further down. This means that any module which requests firmware (in this case