Paul Johnson wrote:
Dear Everybody:
I have a small fleet of external USB hard disks with Fedora and I have
the graduate students boot their windows machines from these external
drives in order to do some actual work (as opposed to playing
Minesweeper). It is no trouble to install these systems on external
USB since the improvements in F7 for that purpose, but when the kernel
is updated, the mkinitrd stuff does not end up getting all of the
right modules loaded. I have to insert the additional options
"--preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage --preload=sd_mod " In order
to make this work. See the patch below. After installing this
special new version of the program "new-kernel-pkg", then kernel
updates go smoothly.
Questions:
1. am I the only one in the world running Fedora from an external
drive these days? If not, why aren't the other guys commenting on
this?
2. I wish the new-kernel-pkg script would accept command line options
for additional required modules, and somehow the system would know the
modules it needs. I have a feeling that such a procedure is already
in place, but somehow it was broken when I built these USB drives.
Know what I mean?
pj
Paul,
Anything in /etc/modprobe.conf a certain way will be included.
Something like this:
alias scsi_hostadapter1 crap
alias scsi_hostadapter2 junk
Will get an error on the mkinitrd because it cannot find the modules crap and
junk, so replacing crap and/or junk with what you want will work just fine. It
will work out all modules that crap and junk depend on, so you won't have to put
those modules in.
Roger
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