From: Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvmcreate_initrd: depmod without -F?
Date: Thu Oct 9 08:24:01 2003 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031009132355.GE11071@tykepenguin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1065625602.7061.42.camel@pc>
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:06:42AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I am trying to create an LVM aware initrd on Debian stable (a.k.a.
> Woody, 3.0) and running into a problem. The problem is so basic though,
> that I must be missing something somewhere else.
>
> I have built and installed a new kernel, but not yet booted it (because
> I need the initrd to boot it). When I try to create the initrd with
> "lvmcreate_initrd <KVER>" it complains:
>
> lvmcreate_initrd -- ERROR running depmod
>
> When I try to run depmod just as the script does (depmod -a <KVER>) it
> indeed does error out with a bunch of unresolved symbols. But they are
> symbols provided by the kernel and hence the command "depmod -F
> /boot/System.map-<KVER> <KVER>" is successful.
>
> How/why does this work for everyone else? If this were a bug (not
> passing the System.map to depmod) as I outline it above, surely it would
> have been fixed by now.
It has, but it's not in Debian stable, it's in Debian testing and unstable.
patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-09 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-09 8:18 [linux-lvm] lvmcreate_initrd: depmod without -F? Brian J. Murrell
2003-10-09 8:24 ` Patrick Caulfield [this message]
2003-10-10 8:15 ` Brian J. Murrell
2003-10-10 8:23 ` Patrick Caulfield
2003-10-13 8:07 ` Renee Lee
2003-10-14 6:40 ` Brian J. Murrell
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