SYSTEMD-M...D.SERVICE(8)

💖 SYSTEMD-MODULES-LOAD.SERVICE 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about systemd-modules-load.service (aka systemd-modules-load) from the systemd-modules-load.service manual — and yes it's section 8, we're in admin territory, main character energy fr fr 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

systemd-modules-load.service, systemd-modules-load — bestie whose whole job is loading kernel modules at boot 🌸

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

systemd-modules-load.service

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-modules-load

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so systemd-modules-load.service is this early boot service that loads kernel modules. like, before everything else is even awake, she's already on her grind 💅

she reads static configuration from files in /usr/ and /etc/, but also runtime configuration from /run/ and the kernel command line (more on that below, keep reading bestie 👇).

if you wanna know what the config format actually looks like, and where you're allowed to drop these config files, go check modules-load.d(5) — she's got the deets, no cap.

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🌈 KERNEL COMMAND LINE 🌈

systemd-modules-load.service understands these kernel command line parameters, periodt:

• modules_load=, rd.modules_load= — takes a comma-separated list of kernel modules to statically load during early boot. the version with the rd. prefix on it? that one is read in the initrd only 🧚

Added in version 187. ⭐

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• systemd(1)
• modules-load.d(5)

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and that's the whole vibe 💜 this was systemd 262.1, SYSTEMD-M...D.SERVICE(8) — go forth and load those modules, bestie, you got this 🫶✨