Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:26:17 -0600 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: Strange behavior since commit 5fef0e5c |
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2008, Larry Finger wrote: >> In testing kernel version 2.6.28-rc4 on my server that was running kernel >> 2.6.27, an external IDE disk system connected via a PCCard interface failed to >> start because module ide_disk would not load. The console output is as follows: >> >> finger@sonylap:~> sudo modprobe -v ide-disk >> WARNING: module 'ide_gd_mod' is unsupported >> FATAL: Module ide_disk not found. > > Please verify that your system uses a recent module-init-tools version > and then repeat 'make modules' + 'make modules_install' (it could be that > something went wrong previously during installing modules) as it works > just fine for me with 2.6.28-rc3 and module-init-tools 3.4.
That was the problem. I had 3.3 pre11, which was installed by openSUSE 10.3. Updating to version 3.4 fixed the problem. Thanks.
Should the requirement in Documentation/Changes be modified, or is that info no longer used?
Larry
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