Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 14:23 schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > > On Jan 29 2007 13:44, Oliver Neukum wrote: > >What use is it to modularly compile something that almost everybody needs? > > [correction: meant CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD, because CONFIG_MD itself does > not generate any code] > > So just beca

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 29 2007 13:44, Oliver Neukum wrote: >Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 13:40 schrieb Jan Engelhardt: >> >Is that an real-live issue, with distro kernels being shipped with >> >almost everything compiled as module these days? >> >> For me it was. FC6 has at least CONFIG_MD=y, and SUSE also has >>

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 13:40 schrieb Jan Engelhardt: > >Is that an real-live issue, with distro kernels being shipped with > >almost everything compiled as module these days? > > For me it was. FC6 has at least CONFIG_MD=y, and SUSE also has some =y that > could be =m with the help of module a

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 29 2007 12:25, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jan 29 2007 09:30, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> Bernhard Walle wrote: * Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-27 15:53]: brokenmodules=..., but that's SUSE's linuxrc. >>> good enough to boot the rescue system from

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jan 29 2007 09:30, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Bernhard Walle wrote: >>> * Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-27 15:53]: >>> brokenmodules=..., but that's SUSE's linuxrc. >> good enough to boot the rescue system from the install cd without >> oopsing and fix up the b

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 29 2007 09:30, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >Bernhard Walle wrote: >> * Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-27 15:53]: >> brokenmodules=..., but that's SUSE's linuxrc. > >good enough to boot the rescue system from the install cd without >oopsing and fix up the blacklist file in the installe

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-29 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-27 15:53]: > brokenmodules=..., but that's SUSE's linuxrc. good enough to boot the rescue system from the install cd without oopsing and fix up the blacklist file in the installed systen though ;) Trying to boot into single use

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-27 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-27 15:53]: > > On Jan 27 2007 02:22, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > >i was wondering whether there exists any mechanism to blacklist modules > >from being loaded besides the typical etc/modprobe.d/blacklist type > >mechanisms. Sometimes you have a module

Re: blacklist kernel boot option

2007-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 27 2007 02:22, Florian Schmidt wrote: > >i was wondering whether there exists any mechanism to blacklist modules >from being loaded besides the typical etc/modprobe.d/blacklist type >mechanisms. Sometimes you have a module oopsing because of faulty hw >which cannot be removed rendering the