Re: modprobe fatal messages at boot

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 09:59:27 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > modprobe: FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.25.9/modules.dep: no  
> > such file or directory
> >
> > Yesterday I finally found a solution (but not *the* solution) to them in  
> > an ubuntu forum:
>
> > The solution given is to unpack the initrd.img and put modules.dep in it  
> > and repack it again, and behold, the messages go away.
>
>   Thats a crazy "solution".
>
>   The real solution us to run "depmod -a"

No that's not it. Read the ubuntu post, that has all the details. The 
problem is not the absence of modules.dep in the *root* file system. The 
problem is its absence before the init of initrd.img runs, at that point 
there is no root file system yet.

Hugo