Silent booting

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Some of the network modules require a pci driver to be installed. The
module to load prior to the rtl8139, tulip, natsemi or via-rhine driver is
pci-scan. Now, that module was supposed to be loaded automatically when
one of those network drivers is loaded.

Try doing

insmod pci-scan
insmod rtl8139

I'll dig up the email with the silent.patch instructions and forward it to
you.

This got me thinking about the kernel compile process... maybe I'll make
the updated network drivers and option (independend package) rather than a
kernel patch...

TTYL,
Adi

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Dean Brown wrote:

> I'm currently using 0.53-10 of pwl, and the 2.2.14 kernel. When I
> changed to the 2.2.17 kernel however, I started having problems with the
> rtl8139 network driver. 
> 
> I'm getting an error when the rc.modules script is executed which simply
> does an insmod on the rtl8139.o module. The errors I am getting are:
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol pci_drv_unregister
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol pci_drv_register
> 
> This was using the precompiled binaries, so I downloaded the source
> files and recompiled the kernel RPM. I'm still getting the same error.
> 
> Assuming I can get this issue solved, do you have any instructions on
> the 'silent.patch'?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Adi Linden wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Which version of pwl and kernel are you using? The 2.2.17 kernel in
> > 0.53 includes the silent.patch which allows for boot messages to be
> > hidden.
> > 
> > TTYL,
> > Adi
> > 
> > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Dean Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > I've got my application running completely automated right from power
> > > up. I would now like to hide the bootup spew so that the first thing the
> > > user sees is the application. Does anyone know how to configure Lilo and
> > > the kernel to do such a thing?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > --
> > >
> > > Dean Brown
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