+# * fsck and mount filesystems
+
+#status_starting fsck of /
+#mount -o remount,ro /
+#fsck -A -T
+# TODO actually check the return value
+status_begin remounting root filesystem rw
+mount -o remount,rw /
+status_check
+
+# need to run depmod here, just in case
+# it should be done at kernel install time, but this can avoid
+# errors if that goes wrong or there are new or removed modules
+status_begin running depmod
+depmod
+status_check
+
+# load any kernel modules
+# there's probably a better way to do this
+# this could also be done in the initial ram-disk, but
+# this covers the case where there isn't one, but we still want
+# to load more hardware
+if ! is_true "$NOPROBEHW" ; then
+ status_begin "loading kernel modules"
+ modlist=$(lspci -k|grep 'Kernel modules:' | awk '{print $3}'| sort -u)
+ if [ -n "$modlist" ]; then
+ modprobe $modlist
+ fi
+ status_check
+fi