On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 21:25 -0400, John David Anglin wrote: > This is excellent detective work. If I might ask, how did you trace > the module loads and successful inits? Heh, you're expecting me to name magic tracing tools? Well (shuffles feet) I just put printks in kernel/modules.c to do it. It's basically impossible to trace a boot problem like this any other way, because we don't have enough of the system up to use any tools. James