Re: Debian Sarge boot problems on Mac 9600

In article <uwtdz6992.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Angus Duggan <angus_colp0001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The machine has an Adaptec 2940UW card in it running a RAID-1 for /home. The
old kernel has this as a module, but it won't autoload the module before
trying to mount /home, so I have to manually load the module and start the
RAID on boot-up. I've tried adding aic7xxx options to the boot params, but
nothing I've tried will load the module early enough.

The way to load a module that you need very early in the boot process is
to put it in your initrd.
.

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