Comment 9 for bug 7290

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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:45:24 +0200
From: Bastian Blank <email address hidden>
To: Martin Michlmayr <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: initrd-tools - fails if storage modules are compiled in

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severity 263216 important
thanks

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:53:29PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Bastian Blank <email address hidden> [2004-08-03 13:35]:
> > mkinitrd fails if the specified storage modules are compiled into the
> > kernel. This makes it unusable on s390 as any current kernels have them
> > compiled in.
> >=20
> > | /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_5: modprobe failed
> > | FATAL: Module dasd_eckd_mod not found.
> > | FATAL: Module dasd_fba_mod not found.
>=20
> Herbert said: "Well if mkinitrd didn't check the existence of those
> modules then people who don't configure them into the kernel at all
> will get an unbootable system.

This differs from the 2.4 support, which don't fails in this case.

Bastian

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