My boot process is taking about 40secs and 20secs of it was due to udev modprobing some modules in my system. These modules are driver modules which the kernel had already probed and loaded on boot.

I tried to edit modprobe.conf to 'install ABC /bin/true' to have it hopefully skip modprobing these modules, but it still waits for 20 secs before saying that the module is not found.

I even tried blacklisting using modprobe.d/blacklist, but it still does not skip it.

How do I resolve this problem? By the way, these modules are not compiled into the kernel as modules, but are actually linked in.

This is 2.6.19 on an ARM platform...

Thanks

I'm not sure I understand. Normally modules are loaded from /etc/rc.d/rc<#>.d where <#> is the number of the runlevel and consists of links to /etc/rc.d (or some such directory structure). Simply deleting the links for your runlevel should do the trick -- or just rename the proper directory.

It is taking a long time in /etc/rc.d/init.d/udev and the command in this file is udevsynthesize. I think it is trying to populate the /dev devices.

Thanks

Well, move it to somewhere else and look what happens. Rationale: What is not contained in your /etc/rc.d/init.d can't get started...

If I move the udev from /etc/rc.d/init.d, then my /dev devices are not populated... It's just the udevsynthesize command in that file...

I tried to remove the udevsynthesize command and my /dev devices are not populated as well...

You just said that already?!?