[ILUG] Mandrake - it works....but why?

[Kevin Philp]

On Wednesday 9 February 2005 12:01, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
>Kevin Philp wrote:
>> What are peoples recommendations - should we just stick with the 2.4
>> kernel?
>>
>> Kevin.
>
>Nope.
>
>It _sounds_ to me like there is some sort of error that gets exposed by
>harddrake when probing for whatever USB hardware you use ....
>
>
>Having a little think about this in my head, I'd _say_ what may be
>happening is that during system install the installer tries to probe for
>_every_ possible device driver it has in /lib/modules/2.6.blah
>
>one of those does something nasty to your machine.
>
>Configuring the system with 2.4 probably has less modules or perhaps
>just not that hard hang error with module-x.
>
>Since you get all the way through configuration, with a 2.4, you now
>have a configured set of modules to load at startup.
>
>This is why (I'd guess) that subsequent 2.6 boots succeed once you are
>probing for _just_ the hardware on your system as opposed to _all_
>potential hardware.
>
>disclaimer : I have a vague idea that *mainlinedistro* automagic config
>utils try to load the world and it's mother of modules during install,
>that guess could be wrong, this is not a process I've investigated in
>any detail worth talking about.
>
>You should find the module/modules that are causing the error and file a
>bug report.
>
>
>Bryan

Interesting, here is the modules.conf from a "fixed" machine and from another 
"bust" machine. I will try modifying modules.conf in line with what works on 
the bust machine and see if that also springs back to life. This is a it 
beyond me, is there anything obviously wrong here? 

FIXED
probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd
above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
probeall scsi_hostadapter imm ppa
alias eth0 8139too


BUST
# This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using 
generate-modprobe.conf command

remove snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/modprobe --first-time 
-r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
install snd-via82xx /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-via82xx 
&& { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; 
/bin/true