bb 1.17 causing subsequent driver problems

[Peter Scheie]

On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 13:58 -0500, Tito wrote:
> On Friday 25 May 2012 20:19:30 Peter Scheie wrote:
> > Correction: I've been using bb 1.15.2.  1.16 has mkfs_ext2 and works
> > with no problem.  But at some point I'll want to move to an
> > even-less-out-of-date version such as 1.17 or greater, so the question
> > still stands.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 11:27 -0500, Peter Scheie wrote:
> > > I've been using bb 1.16.2 to build a custom initramfs, which we use to
> > > replace the stock initrd in Centos 5 (we do some special things we need
> > > in the initramfs).  Now I need mkfs_ext2, so I grabbed the bb 1.17.2
> > > that I use in another project.  But I'm getting some odd behavior.  The
> > > initramfs loads fine and does all the stuff it's supposed to, after
> > > which it does a switch_root (so the initramfs & bb are out of the
> > > picture) and mounts the file systems from the local disk, runs the
> > > Centos rc scripts, all which seems to go fine.  But with 1.17, when udev
> > > is started by Centos's rc.sysinit, I get an error that "DM multipath
> > > kernel driver not loaded", and then later a modprobe warning, "Could not
> > > open 'kernel/net/netfilter/x_tables.ko': no such file or directory"
> > > followed by another modprobe error, "FATAL: Error inserting ip_tables
> > > (kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter.ko: no such file or directory", even though
> > > both those files are on the disk.  And of course, iptables then won't
> > > run.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas as to what changed between 1.16 and 1.17 that would cause
> > > this?  I also tried 1.17.4 and got the same results.  Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Peter
> 
> Hi,
> is CONFIG_DEFAULT_MODULES_DIR set correctly:   
> 	Directory that contains kernel modules.   
> 	Defaults to "/lib/modules" 
> 
> maybe also posting your config file could help.
> 
> Ciao,
> Tito

Thanks Tito.  CONFIG_DEFAULT_MODULES_DIR is set to the
default, /lib/modules.  I used the same config file with both versions
of bb.  I've posted it at http://pastebin.com/xNqvHnTm.

Peter