How do I load a driver module at start up

galliar · 11-08-2008, 09:50 AM

Hello,

I have a Rocket Raid 2310 card and I built a driver in Suse 11.0 x64. It loads. However, I now want to create a raid array, and load the driver I just built on boot up so I can install a fresh copy of suse on the raid 5 array. How do you load a module at boot so I can see the array and do an installation? I tried doing an Acronis backup of the system and moving it to the array, but the restore fails.

Can somebody point me to some instructions?

Regards,

Randy.

klearview · 11-08-2008, 09:55 AM

Add the name of the module to /etc/modules.conf (/etc/modules on Debian)

galliar · 11-08-2008, 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by klearview

Add the name of the module to /etc/modules.conf (/etc/modules on Debian)

Wow, what a quick response! You answered a question that I have been looking for for some time for loading a module when a system is already installed.

Now, if I don't have a system loaded at all, and I boot from the install disk, how do I load the driver so I can install to the array? I know you can press F6 and use a floppy, but that implies some type of install script.

I hope this makes sense!

Regards,

Randy.

amani · 11-08-2008, 10:19 AM

Modules can be loaded at boot time and definitely require a kernel. You do not seem to require something like 'dkms' or do you?

klearview · 11-08-2008, 11:04 AM

Create a custom install disk which will load needed module at boot as standard - I think YAST CD Creator can be used for this but I'm not sure - never needed something like this and haven't used SUSE for a while