Paul Rolland wrote: >> Can you change driver load order such that the driver for the modem is >> loaded first? > > As I said, it's not possible, because : > - the modem driver is an out-kernel one, so I have to wait the end of the > boot process so that it can be loaded, > - libata on IRQ23 is the one taking care of my disks, and I suspect it > quite hard to install a modem driver before having the disk driver > installed. You can do both by... 1. Build the modem driver into the kernel. char drivers are linked in before ATA ones, so it will attach first. 2. Using a custom initrd with emergency shell. initrd is loaded by BIOS so no driver is involved. I don't actually know how to do this tho. 3. Put in an extra disk controller and boot from it with both drivers compiled as module. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html