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Author Topic: How Do I Remove Items From The Kernel ?.  (Read 4536 times)

tickmike

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How Do I Remove Items From The Kernel ?.
« on: April 16, 2009, 09:25:33 PM »

How do I remove drivers (that are uninstalled in synaptic) that should not be there in the kernel when it loads up ?.

I have a few problems with some 'Virtual Machines' not loading properly and I'm trying different things to solve the problem, I noted these drivers on the 'verbose' text on boot.
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Re: How Do I Remove Items From The Kernel ?.
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2009, 10:34:15 PM »

Can you say what drivers specifically? Most drivers will only be loaded if they are needed to support actual hardware.
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Re: How Do I Remove Items From The Kernel ?.
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2009, 11:30:49 PM »

Can you say what drivers specifically? Most drivers will only be loaded if they are needed to support actual hardware.


Hello Eric, I have installed VirtualBox 2.2.0   RPM  from sun, all other versions should not be there.

But these are still trying to load up at boot.

Vboxadd (2.0.4-pclos2007):Already installed on this kernel.

Vboxdrv (1.6.2):Autoinstall not set in dkms.conf.

Vboxufs (2.0.4-pclos2007):Already installed on this kernel.

VirtualBox (2.0.4-pclos2007):Already installed on this kernel.
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Re: How Do I Remove Items From The Kernel ?.
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2009, 07:27:11 AM »

When you install VirtualBox it builds a driver to match the running kernel; the driver isn't actually part of the kernel, but merely compatible with it. It's some time since I've used PCLinuxOS, but there will be a configuration file somewhere in /etc which is responsible for loading modules at boot time. This may be /etc/modules, containing a simple list of modules to be loaded, or it may be something like /etc/init.d/boot.local, which is a script which can have some modprobe statements added to it.

I think all you'll need to do is locate the relevant config file and delete the references to the unwanted drivers.
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