Re: Kirkwood / Qnap HS-210, kernel 3.16->4.2/ udev 215->227 upgrade issue

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> [2015-11-09 08:37]:
> It might be the same issue as this recent installation report:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804351
> 
> I've not had a chance to dig into what is going on there. Often this
> kind of thing turns out to be an upstream change to the modules
> (different config options, splitting modules into more fine grained
> parts) which requires tweaks to the kernel config, or initramfs-tools
> or to the kernel udebs for the installer.

There was a report on the QNAP forum about a QNAP no longer booting
after an update.  The logs says:

[    8.697480]  sdb: sdb1
[    8.702144]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
[    8.705613] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[    8.713159] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... modprobe: module of:NocpT<NULL>Csimple-bus not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module of:NgpioT<NULL>Cmarvell,orion-gpio not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module of:NocpT<NULL>Csimple-bus not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module of:NgpioT<NULL>Cmarvell,orion-gpio not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module of:NocpT<NULL>Csimple-bus not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module of:Nsata-phyT<NULL>Cmarvell,mvebu-sata-phy not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module of:NocpT<NULL>Csimple-bus not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module of:Nsata-phyT<NULL>Cmarvell,mvebu-sata-phy not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module of:NocpT<NULL>Csimple-bus not found in modules.dep
modprobe: module platform:reg-dummy not found in modules.dep
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
...
[ and then the UUID is not found ]

Any idea what these messages about modules.dep are about?

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