Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1194 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> On Sunday, 2010-01-03 at 02:21 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
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> > Listmates,
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> >     I recovered my 10.3 system with the 11.2 install dvd. I booted the
> >     installed system from the 11.2 disk and then re-installed grub.
> >     Now I get the following modprobe error whenever I try to copy
> >     files from sdb -> sda:
> >
> > Jan  3 02:06:53 nirvana modprobe: FATAL: Could not load
> > /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-0.1-default/modules.dep: No such file or directory
> > Jan  3 02:06:53 nirvana modprobe: FATAL: Could not load
> > /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-0.1-default/modules.dep: No such file or directory
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> It seems like depmod got confused. But I don't know where the
> information to search for modules.dep is stored. Have a look to see if
> the kernel files in /boot are consistent. Try running depmod.
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> Ah! There is an "/etc/depmod.conf" file, look in there.
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> - -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.
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Carlos:

> The Sunday 2007-09-30 at 16:20 -0400, caleb storms wrote:
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> > its been awhile since i've had to compile a kernel, but i had to for
> > some things and i've installed it with no real issue, the thing is that
> > I used the old initrd file for my boot loader.  Therefore it didn't seem
> > to load the new modules.  Makes sense i guess.  Anyway, i'm on a ppc and
> > i have not found an easy way to create an initrd image.  Does anyone
> > know of any down and dirty howto for this ?
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> Doesn't the "mkinitrd" script work there?
>
> - -- 
> Cheers,
>         Carlos E. R.

Thanks for the help :p


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