[techtalk] where do I put a module to have it come up at boottime?

[Samantha Atkins]

THanks Beverly (and everyone else who replied).  That did the trick.

- samantha

Beverly Guillermo wrote:

> It depends on your distribution where you'd like to put it.  I personally
> like to add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules in my slackware distribution.  Or
> else you can load them in /etc/conf.modules, then add the lines to
> /etc/rc.d/rc.M (if you're using slack) or rc.sysinit (for redhat).
>
> In the redhat version, do a search for the following line:
> 'if [ -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then '
>
> and add the alias for your scsi card:
>
> if grep -s -q " "^alias scsi" /etc/conf.modules ; then
>   action "Loading scsi module" modprobe scsi
> fi
>
> Or another option is to do as recommended by some people and add it to
> your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file since it's supposed to contain all your own
> personal initializations.
>
> Beverly
>
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> > I recently added a scsi controller to my Linux box that was just IDE.  I
> > can't seem to find the place to add in that it should install aic7xxx
> > automagically at boot time.  I'm currently just installing it manually
> > using insmod.   It seems like this should be pretty straightforward to find
> > but so far I'm stumped.  I'm using RH 6.0.
> >
> > thanks for any info.
> >
> > - samantha
> >
> >
> >
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