Thanks!  That did the trick!

Steve

On 22 Feb 99, at 8:53, Fabio Coatti wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 01:43:42PM -0600, Stephen Anderson wrote:
> pport.
> > 
> > To make a long story short I ended up running a "depmod -a" and a
> > "modprobe vfat"  I could then mount my Win95 partition.  An lo and behold
> > a new "modprobe -l" shows a whole lot of modules loaded.  And, to top it
> > off, X runs now.
> > 
> > Finally, my question is this.  Do I have to modify some startup parameters
> > to activate modprobe so I don't have to do this by hand?  What's the deal?
> > Thanks!
> 
> 
> Kernels 2.2.x uses kmod to load modules, kerneld is no longer used. So you
> can remove kerneld from init scripts. 
> depmod -a is required only once when new modules are recompiled, but is a
> good thing to put it in a script executed (early) at startup.
> 
> modprobe relies on dependecies fixed by depmod.
> 
> 
> 
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