Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)
Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> wrote:
>> Earlier I reported a problem with installing potato (from scratch)
>> and getting errors at boot time like:
>>
>> kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
>>
>> and many occurrences of:
>>
>> modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies files /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
> If you are only seeing this on startup and it doesn't affect the rest of
> ths instal then please ignore the message. This is an unfortunate result
> of unix.o not being compiled into the default kernel, and unless Herbert
> somehow manages to get unix.o to fit we can't do much about it.
The first message can only be disabled in the kernel, but the second one
can be gotten rid of if you generate a modules.dep file beforehand.
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