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author | Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.org> | 2009-03-10 18:31:38 +0000 |
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committer | Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.org> | 2009-03-10 18:31:38 +0000 |
commit | 2078b3d6e2d62e22ed02f1d2193e90e95002d4d7 (patch) | |
tree | 8299da3ca586739cef00a2b8b79bb487b886e5fb | |
parent | 353b5dc2e35e281711dc3cae2c5b16f6dc64f104 (diff) | |
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Update doc from what I understood
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diff --git a/mdk-stage1/doc/UPDATEMODULES b/mdk-stage1/doc/UPDATEMODULES index ceef21758..cfae4dc54 100644 --- a/mdk-stage1/doc/UPDATEMODULES +++ b/mdk-stage1/doc/UPDATEMODULES @@ -12,13 +12,14 @@ e2fs filesystem. This disk may contain a number of kernel modules; some of them may replace existing modules, some of them may be added. -This disk must contain a special file, named "to_load", on -the root (not in a subdirectory). This file will contain a series of -module names, with optional module options; the program will try to load -all these modules one after another, using file on the floppy if present, -else using file within standard module repository ("marfile" on the boot -floppy). It can contain comments, these are strictly defined by the -presence of a hash (#) character on column 0 of any line. + +Create a directory per kernel version, named from the version, for example +2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb. In this directory put the modules and a special +file, named "to_load". This file will contain a series of module names, with +optional module options; the program will try to load all these modules one +after another, using file on the floppy if present, else using file within +standard module repository. It can contain comments, these are strictly defined +by the presence of a hash (#) character on column 0 of any line. This disk may also contain some update or new modules for installed kernels. Those modules must be placed in directory <kernel-version>. They must be @@ -44,17 +45,14 @@ Here's a typical scenario: --=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=----=-- Our example disk contains: -[root@obiwan mnt]# ll floppy/ -total 77 -drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 26 12:02 lost+found/ --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9051 Jul 26 12:43 msdos.ko --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13660 Jul 26 12:04 ppa.ko --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54 Jul 26 12:46 to_load --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32108 Jul 26 12:04 uhci.ko --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6572 Jul 26 12:04 wacom.ko -drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 26 12:04 2.6.8.1-20mdk -drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 26 12:04 2.6.8.1-20mdksmp -[root@obiwan mnt]# cat floppy/to_load +[root@obiwan mnt]# ll floppy/* +2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb/: +total 541 +drwxrwxr-x 3 a a 1024 2009-03-09 12:09 kernel/ +-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 547480 2009-03-09 12:04 msdos.ko +-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 54748 2009-03-09 12:04 ppa.ko +-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 79 2009-03-09 12:08 to_load +[root@obiwan mnt]# cat floppy/*/to_load # Update Drivers description file 3c59x # fat is a dep for msdos @@ -66,7 +64,10 @@ ppa ne io=0x300 irq=7 # New module [list_modules: disk/scsi] a320raid -[root@obiwan mnt]# (cd floppy/2.6.8.1-20mdk ; find -type f) +[root@obiwan mnt]# (cd floppy/2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb ; find -type f) +./msdos.ko +./ppa.ko +./to_load ./kernel/fs/msdos/msdos.ko.gz ./kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.ko.gz ./kernel/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.ko.gz |