kernel module

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Fri Mar 12 08:07:14 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 09:55 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Luca wrote:

> > What I would like to do now, is to use grub and do something like
> > ttile Fedora
> >      root (hd1,0)
> >      kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9 ro root=/dev/.... mymodule.param="valueOfParam"
> >      initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9
> >
> > Tried several things so far, but with no luck.
> 
>   i'm pretty sure that you can only use that "mymodule.param" notation
> on the kernel command line for modules that have been *compiled into*
> the kernel, no?  that won't work for loadable modules, but i'm willing
> to be corrected.

Sorry for the lag in replying, don't read fedora-users often.

Actually, it does work for loadable modules because since a while now
modprobe will parse the kernel command line for parameters.

Jon.




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