mkinitrd complains modules.dep is not updated SOLVED

[Vu Pham]

I feel shamed to say SOLVED. I copied the driver file into the wrong 
place !!! What could not be found was the driver itself.

Of course, without the driver, how  mkinitrd can know what its 
dependencies are :)


Vu

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.
> 
> Vu
> 
> sun-photo:/lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default # depmod 2.6.18.2-34-default
> sun-photo:/lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default # mkinitrd
> Root device:    /dev/sda4 (mounted on / as ext3)
> Module list:    processor thermal ahci ata_piix rr2310_00 aic7xxx fan 
> jbd ext3 edd (xennet xenblk)
> 
> Kernel image:   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.2-34-default
> Initrd image:   /boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default
> Shared libs:    lib64/ld-2.5.so lib64/libacl.so.1.1.0 
> lib64/libattr.so.1.1.0 lib64/libblkid.so.1.0 lib64/libc-2.5.so 
> lib64/libcom_err.so.2.1 lib64/libdl-2.5.so lib64/libext2fs.so.2.4 
> lib64/libhistory.so.5.1 lib64/libncurses.so.5.5 lib64/libpthread-2.5.so 
> lib64/libreadline.so.5.1 lib64/librt-2.5.so lib64/libutil-2.5.so 
> lib64/libuuid.so.1.2 lib64/libvolume_id.so.0.73.0 
> lib64/libnss_files-2.5.so lib64/libnss_files.so.2 lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
> Cannot determine dependencies of module rr2310_00. Is modules.dep up to 
> date?
> Cannot determine dependencies of module rr2310_00. Is modules.dep up to 
> date?
> Driver modules: scsi_mod sd_mod processor thermal libata ahci ata_piix 
> scsi_transport_spi aic7xxx fan edd
> Filesystem modules:     jbd mbcache ext3
> Including:      initramfs fsck.ext3
> 17903 blocks
> sun-photo:/lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default #
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