On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:22:57AM -0800, S P wrote: > I need to insert a kernel module into the system when it boots up, > before any user logs in. How can this be done ? Depending on your distro, there's usually a start up script called something like '/etc/init.d/modules', which looks for a configuration file in /etc (probably called something with 'modules' as well), and loads modules based on its contents. On debian, /etc/init.d/modutils will read /etc/modules and load the modules written there. Consult your distros documentation and man pages for more details. (If you meant that you need to load modules before even mounting the root file system, you want an initrd. Consult the kernel, lilo and mkinitrd documentation). -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
