[arch-general] hwdetect with kernel upgrade?

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Tue Feb 3 03:44:11 EST 2009


Shridhar Daithankar schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> A long time ago, I posted that with kernel upgrade, the module insertion hangs 
> till I hit enter.
> 
> I ran hwdetect and updated the modules array, sans the standard acpi modules 
> and it now works reliably every time. It can boot unattended now.

We don't use hwdetect anymore and leave the user with an empty MODULES 
array on new installations. This works much better as soon as you work 
around the harddisk swapping issues with UUID based naming.

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