On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
> LILO loads the kernel, which then loads the initrd. The kernel
> does not read conf.modules nor load any modules. The init
> process is documented completely in one of the Red Hat books on
> the Documentation CDROM. I think it is Red Hat Users Guide.
>
> init has nothing to do with the loading of modules either. Init
> runs rc.sysinit, which calls rc.modules, rc.serial if they exist.
> init then calls "rc" script which in turn determines the
> runlevel, and then calls all scripts in rcX.d in order, where X
> is the runlevel. The last symlink in each rcX.d directory is
> S99local which runs rc.local dead last. The scripts in the rcX.d
> directories are actually symlinks to scripts in init.d dir, which
> do the loading of daemons, and various other things.
>
> Modules are loaded either in rc.modules, or in rc.local or
> wherever you manually put them. If no such manual module loading
> is done, then no modules get loaded. If you've got kmod built
> into your kernel, the kernel automatically loads modules as they
> are needed using kmod, but this isn't necessarily part of the
> boot process, but can be if a device or kernel feature is used
> during initscript processing requiring the kernel to load such.
>
> kmod calls modprobe to load a module, which in turn reads in
> conf.modules as needed.
>
> Reading the scripts is the best way to understand them though, of
> course with the documentation in hand as well.
>
Thanks a lot, Mike. Many thanks to Emmanuel Galanos too. That was my
intention since the very beginning, to read the source of those scripts
involved. I just needed to know in which order I should read them. :-)
Again, thanks a lot.
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