Bug#142359: boot-floppies: Error messages from modprobe during boot
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:17:34AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:48:25PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > Oliver Elphick wrote on Thu Apr 11, 2002 um 02:40:28PM:
> >
> > > On an old 486, many messages like this were seen while booting the
> > > default installation root.bin:
> > >
> > > modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.20/modules.dep
> >
> > I guess you have a hardware problem or made something wrong (e.g.
> > rerun the installation with another flavor, not reinstalling
> > kernel&modules).
>
> This is an old problem. The kernel tries to load a module while
> booting. Since the kernel and modules aren't installed, it
> fails, spamming the console as it retries. On new machines,
> dbootstrap hides these messages before most users notice them.
I had investigated the same problem on mipsel (although with kernel 2.4).
It is the busybox-init which tries to open a unix domain socket (net-pf-1).
When support for this is compiled as module, the kernel module loader
tries to load it and stumbles over the non-existant modules.dep.
Regards,
Karsten
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