On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
But may-be /etc/modprobe/options is used at kernel upgrade to create the initrd image. That would explain why the same error occured with my 2 kernels.
Running dpkg-reconfigure, I checked that this is true Remains the question "how /etc/modprobe.d/options was corrupted" May-be after a power failure, but I thought that this couldn't happen with a ext4 file system. -- Pierre Frenkiel