How to blacklist a kernel module "Pristine Boot"?

[partsman]

Hello all

I was wondering if there is a way to blacklist a kernel module
when booting a "pristine" or pfix=ram no save being used ?
Such as from a live cd !

Thanks in advance !

[april]

Well once booted you could use the command line to blacklist the module for the session .
To make it persistent the command you settle on would have to be put in a script and placed in the Start folder which is read and executed on startup .

There were no answers so this might at least get some more knowledgeable people to jump in and correct me if I am mistaken.

[partsman]

There were no answers so this might at least get some more knowledgeable people to jump in and correct me if I am mistaken.

Thanks april
Well according to the guys over at arch this would be an example of how to do in from grub :
modprobe.blacklist=modname1

However ! I also know that puppy is missing some important command line
features !

Maybe it would be worth the trouble for some of the developers to include/implement some of these features into puppy

If all else it would be good for debugging !

Although its been mentioned in the past ! I have yet to see it done !
But might be worth a go if someone with more knowledge to implement this into woof CE

[april]

yep just type modprobe in a terminal and it will give you the cli help syntax. You will need the proper module name .
When you get it right it should look like this I think "modprobe -r <module name>"

There is a bit of stuff on here about blacklisting modules .Here is one
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31883

however if you search with this string " blacklist module site:murga_linux.com" you will get a wealth of material . Finding what you want is the problem.

When you get the cli syntax right then make a script file called say "myscript.sh" and put the line in it . Then the problem becomes how to have it run every boot.

[bigpup]

I found a reference to using this code:

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(name of modeule).blacklist=yes

Maybe use the code at the Puppy boot screen F2 options screen.

Example:
to blacklist the nouveau module

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puppy nouveau.blacklist=yes

I have not tried this, this person said it worked for him to blacklist the nouveau driver by putting nouveau.blacklist=yes at the end of the kernel line in his grub menu.

[Peterm321]

I have not tried this, this person said it worked for him to blacklist the nouveau driver by putting nouveau.blacklist=yes at the end of the kernel line in his grub menu.

One thing I find annoying about trying a live CD is the nouveau driver getting loaded and setting the console font way to small on the console. One way to discourage this is using nomodeset or nouveau.modeset=0 on the kernel command line. As a matter of fact a fair number of tunable parameters in the modules can be set this way taking the form of

<modulename>.<parameter>=value

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting/

[partsman]

bigpup wrote :

(name of modeule).blacklist=yes

Yes ! that worked ! Thanks bigpup !

And also thanks to you too Peterm321 ! For the additional info !

Also thanks ! to april for drawing attention to this post !

[bigpup]

Could you tell us exactly what you did?

Maybe make a topic in the "HowTo section" of the forum to show others how to do it.