On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Rob wrote: > I've installed the kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 package. Until now, I've > been running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. Though I didn't change what > modules I load, with this new kernel package have come a whole bunch of > new modules that are being loaded. I've run modconfig and removed them, > but they continue to to load at boot.
This insane behaviour is caused by initrd: ,---- | # cat /initrd/loadmodules | modprobe -k vesafb > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k unix 2> /dev/null | modprobe -k ide-mod | modprobe -k pdc202xx_new > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k adma100 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k aec62xx > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k alim15x3 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k amd74xx > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k cmd640 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k cmd64x > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k cs5530 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k cy82c693 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k generic > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k hpt34x > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k hpt366 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k ns87415 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k opti621 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k pdc202xx_old > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k piix > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k rz1000 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k sc1200 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k serverworks > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k siimage > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k sis5513 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k slc90e66 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k triflex > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k trm290 > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k via82cxxx > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k ide-probe-mod | modprobe -k ide-disk `---- Up to kernel-image-2.4.20 a more moderate approach was chosen: ,---- | # cat /initrd/loadmodules | modprobe -k vesafb > /dev/null 2>&1 | modprobe -k unix 2> /dev/null | modprobe -k ide-mod | modprobe -k ide-probe-mod | modprobe -k ide-disk `---- I was going to put the whole blame on hotplug, but I would have been wrong. I still think it's weird it starts from /etc/rcS.d _and_ all run levels (except 0 and 6). Cheers, Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
