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Re: stopping dm-* modules and associated files from loading at boot
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> On 08/31/2010 11:33 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:

thank you for reply.

<snip>

>> Are you using LVM?
> 
> no. i dislike lvm almost as much as ms bs os.
> 
>> If not, you might want to run mkinitrd with the following options:
>>
>> --omit-raid-modules
>> --omit-lvm-modules

tried;

  # mkinitrd --omit-raid-modules --omit-lvm-modules \
    /boot/initrd-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.img 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5

dm-* modules load on boot.

added

  blacklist dm-[module names]

to "modprobe.conf", 'dm-*' modules load on boot.


any further suggestions?


-- 

peace out.

tc,hago.

g
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