Is there a way to get a list of loaded kernel modules in cobbler snippets?

James Cammarata jimi at sngx.net
Sat Jul 30 14:22:07 UTC 2011


>> Background: I want to check if there is a loaded cciss module and thus
>> setting the install disk to /dev/cciss/c0d0 if not the install disk
>> should be /dev/sda.
>
> list-harddrives might also help there, as long as the cciss devices have
> the 'cciss' in their path.  IIRC this will or has als been changed, they
> will appear as sdX then.
> /proc/devices might also be of help.

Also why not just use bash to test if /dev/cciss/c0d0 is there, and if
so use it, otherwise default to sda or something else?

if [ -b /dev/cciss/c0d0 ]; then
  disk="cciss/c0d0"
else
  disk="sda"
fi


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