John Summerfield wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:14 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 17:33 +0100, info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
Is it possible to define which modules mkinitrd should add to the
initrd?
I have a custom initrd, but after every kernel upgrade, it recreates
the
initrd. When it does this,
I loose the extra module I need, so I end up recreating the initrd
myself again.
I know in Ubuntu and Debian there is a file somewhere in /etc/sysconfig
that defines the modules
to use when building the initrd. But I have yet to find this file in
Fedora.
The --with option in mkinitrd
mkinitrd will load any modules required to mount the root filesystem
(e.g. SCSI, ext3, network [if / is on an NFS volume], etc.) If you need
additional modules, then "--with=name-of-module" is required.
Some one has to remember what the extra modules are? It's difficult
enough for me, let alone any colleagues who might share the
responsibility, or my successor.
The Nameless One's point (in part) is that in Debian. one adds those
names to a configuration file, and then
1. It's documented for said colleagues and successors
2. It happens every time in the future, nobody has to remember it.
I think you can do something by adding a file to
/etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd/ where you set MODULES to the list of modules to
add,
Good catch, John!
I'm not certain why this file isn't created during the initial
installation process but I think it should be. That would transparently
integrate it into the mkinitrd described in the man page.
I found these four are the overridable options described in the manpage.
PROBE="yes"
MODULES=""
PREMODS=""
DMDEVS=""
Not sure where this one comes from (possibly the mkinitrd script itself)
but looks like an opportunity to specify network device modules.
NET_LIST=""
MIke Wright
