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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

How to block a module from loading via the boot prompt?

Before I ditch my netbook, and take Best Buy's 15% restocking fee, I have one question to ask...

See, in this netbook there is a bug involving the atl1c and atl1e modules. atl1c is the correct driver for the Attansic AR8132 ethernet controller, but atl1e gets loaded instead on boot; and when it does it screws up the controller's settings such that it won't connect unless you do a cold reboot (i.e. unplugging the battery and power supply).

On an installed system, I can deal with this by blacklisting atl1e and forcing eth0 to use atl1c via modprobe.conf. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do this on a live environment, so if the netbook's install went pear-shaped I'd be stuck without any means of connecting to the internet using a live CD or whatever.

So... Is there a way to block a module from loading at the GRUB or syslinux boot prompt? OpenSuSE does have brokenmodules=whatever, but that doesn't seem to work on a lot of distros.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: How to block a module from loading via the boot prompt?

Okay got it: it's noload=whatever. Seems to work on all distros. Hurray.

Now, on to the retarded dhcpcd/dhclient failures I'm getting.