[SOLVED] Annoying boot-up messages

[Pann McCuaig <pann@agora.rdrop.com>]

Thanks for all the responses. Kevin hit the nail on the head.

On 25 Nov 1997, Kevin Buhr wrote:

> Pann McCuaig <pann@agora.rdrop.com> writes:
> > 
> > This started happening weeks ago when I upgraded from rex to bo. It seems
> > to have no real effect other than the annoying boot-up messages.
> [ . . . lots of "modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory"
>         problems . . . ]
> 
> What's probably happening is that the "/proc" filesystem isn't being
> mounted early enough in "/etc/init.d/boot".  This might be because
> you'd made some modifications to "/etc/init.d/boot", so it wasn't
> replaced with an up-to-date "bo" version when you upgraded.

 [snip!]

> As a better alternative, you probably have a file named
> "/etc/init.d/boot.dpkg-new".  This is the "bo" version that wasn't
> installed because changes to "boot" were detected.  Assuming you can
> remember the changes you made to "boot", you probably want to replace
> "boot" with "boot.dpkg-new" and add your changes, just to guarantee
> that you're starting with the most up-to-date "bo" version of "boot".

Bingo! I had added a custom keymap. Added the appropriate lines to
"boot.dpkg-new", mv'ed it to "boot", rebooted, and Voila!  Thanks much.

Cheers,
 Pann


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