On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> > kerneld should be started before ANYTHING else happens, with the
> > possible exception of a root filesystem check. The reason for this
> > is that it may be needed to load binary-format modules, or
> > md-personalities, etc. I had my system lock up during boot because
> > i have swap on a raid0 md device, and i compiled raid0 as a module.
>
> But swap should be turned on before doing any memory-hungry things,
> like fsck for example. kerneld is already started pretty early. You
> can rename the S files in /etc/rc2.d (changing their numbers) if you
> want to change the order.
You don't need to play with the S files to get kerneld started early. Take
a look in /etc/modules... If you put "auto" on a line then kerneld will be
started right after the root filesystem has been fsck'ed and remounted
read-write. (i.e. before other fs are mounted, etc.)
Christian
