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  From: Alex Garner <linuxsa@bourbon.lynx.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:45:44 +0930

Re: Booting a Sun 3/60

At 12:06 28/04/99 , you wrote:
>Solution = kernel level module loader.

As per below, this is what I'm already doing. I need to know how to solve
the problem of the module not loading.

Cheers

Alex!

>> I thought I my problem was the fact that I didn't have rarp compiled into
>> my kernel. I recompiled, making sure that I had the rarp module, and then I
>> realised that I already had the rarp module. (When I typed `rarp -av` it
>> said 'not supported by kernel' with both the original kernel and my new
>> one.) I realised that the rarp module wasn't being loaded, so I manually
>> set the rarp entry with tha `rarp -s` command and behold, it worked. The
>> rarp module loaded and the sun 3/60 booted, found it's IP via bootpd and
>> tftpd'ed it's kernel across the network.
>> 
>> Question. How can I get the rarp requests to load the module? Without the
>> module loaded, inetd doesn't even bother starting bootpd. It only works
>> when the rarp command prods kerneld to load the module. I'd prefer not to
>> kludge a solutions by getting a script calling insmod or some other hack,
>> I'd just like it to work properly.
>> 
>> I could always compile the code into a kernel, but that's the last resort!
>> 
>> (A solution I've thought of that I don't like, is to call insmod from
>> inetd, but I don't even know if inetd will call anything, cause it's not
>> supported by the kernel. Catch 22!)
>> 
>> Suggestions?


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