[gentoo-user] Newbie Kernel question.

[gentoo-user] Newbie Kernel question.

[James Homuth]

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Appologies if the answer to this question's painfully obvious, but this is
my first local instalation of linux. I'm curious as to whether or not, when
using genkernel, one still needs to add hardware modules to
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Something's telling me no, since it
generates an initramfs and that's supposed to handle hardware detection, but
as this is my first time doing this I want to be sure. I'd of compiled the
kernel myself but I'm not entirely comfortable with doing that on this
system, as I don't know enough about it to do so. But, if anyone here can
provide me with that information, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you in
advance.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie Kernel question.

[Daniel Troeder]

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On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 23:33 -0400, James Homuth wrote:
> I'm curious as to whether or not, when using genkernel, one still
> needs to add hardware modules to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6.
That depends on the amount of modules genkernel puts in your initrd.
Later, when udev starts, it loads more modules, and your hardware should
be 99% set up then. But when you notice, that you still need to load
even more modules, then these are the only ones that need to go
into /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 (as all others have been
automatically loaded).
So my suggestion is: just try it out, and use modules.autoload.d only
for the remaining stuff :)

Bye,
Daniel

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