Error on Start of Gentoo Linux

Heiko · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Germany

Hi, When I start Gentoo Linux, I recieve an error, "modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.21-ppc-r1/modules.dep (no such file or director), is this error serious and if so how can I fix it, my knowledge of Linux is not that great, could be a Hardware error if so - my machine is a Beige G3 Desktop 233, ATI Radeon 7000 64MB DDR, 80GB ATA HD 20GB SCSI HD, DVD Rom Drive.

Thanks
Heiko

reves · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 1:57 pm Post subject:

Hello Heiko,

I beleive you should be able to create the file by running

Heiko · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Germany

Thanks for the tip.

Heiko

kyler · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 10

Any ideas on how to remove these error messages if you've disabled modules on the system?

I've removed modules completely, so depmod -a complains that the kernel doesnt support modules. It seems to me that if I remove modules from all runlevels, the modules.dep error should go away, but it doesn't. I think the checkfs init script may depend on modules, which I don't think it should (yeah i hate modules for some reason)

zeek · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:59 pm Post subject:

I'd like to get rid of these messages too. I installed some fresh machines with gs-sources and now these messages appear.