Re: mkinitrd errors.

[Johan Groth <jgroth@dsl.pipex.com>]

Chris Wakefield wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Since 2.6.12.2 I've not been able to have mkinitrd output an image file.
> I'm getting this error:
> /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_5: modprobe failed
>
> with:
> mkinitrd -o initrd.img-2.6.12.3 2.6.12.3
>
> I'm not worried about the vga16fb or the resulting warning, just the fact that 
> no image is outputted from this failed modprobe.  Curious problem with the 
> find, wondering if mkinitrd is broken somehow?
>
> Does anyone have any idea as what my problem is?

mkinitrd nowadays requires you to give a absolute path for the image.
So it should be:
mkinitrd -o /my/full/path/initrd.img-2.6.12.3 2.6.12.3
and you will find the image under /my/full/path.

/Johan