Silent booting

[Dean Brown]

Ok,

Several problems here. First off, there is no pci-scan.o module anywhere
in the pwl distribution that I've been able to find. Searching the
available packages for pci-scan or pci-scan.o or pci-scan* returns a not
found. 

Searching the filesystem rooted at the Embedded_Builds directory found a
pci-scan.{c|h|o} in the ./src/BUILDS/2.2.17/net path. Copying the .o
file to the /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/ directory and modifying the
/etc/rc.modules file to load the pci-scan module results in an error at
boot time of "/lib/modules/2.2.17/net/pci-scan.o: couldn't find the
kernel version the module was compiled for".

I am using the 2.2.17 kernel.

On another note, entering linux debug=0 at the lilo prompt does indeed
suppress all the kernel spew. Is there any way to add additional
parameters to the lilo.conf created during the load process without
requiring lilo to be manually installed?

Thanks again for you help.

Adi Linden wrote:
> 
> 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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