mkinitrd complains modules.dep is not updated

Bill Campbell linux-sxs at celestial.com
Tue Nov 6 11:05:44 PST 2007


On Tue, Nov 06, 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
>I am trying to load the driver rr2310_00 ( raid controller ) when the 
>system boots, using mkinird but it keeps telling me it cannot find 
>dependencies of this module although I run depmod already. Below is the 
>output of depmod and mkinitrd.
>
>So right now I have to let the system load the driver after that but 
>then the system uses its other driver to map this device into /dev/sdb 
>and when the right module rr2310_00 is loaded, the same device is mapped 
>to /dev/sdc.
>
>Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Have you run depmod to make things current?

Bill
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