+# 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 "looking for kernel modules to load"
+ lspci -k|grep 'Kernel modules:' | awk '{print $3}'| sort -u | xargs -n1 modprobe
+ status_check
+fi
+