System fails to load modules at boot

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Thu Feb 9 19:54:58 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 06:10 -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> I think I've discovered the cause of many of my kubuntu problems...During boot 
> I see the following message scroll across the screen
> 
> Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/modules.dep    [failed]
> 
> After boot lsmod returns only reiserfs, so it appears that none of the kernel 
> modules are loading.
> 
> What do I need to do to correct this?

Did you customize your kernel somehow?

This usually means that you built a new kernel and ran "make install"
but forgot to run "make modules_install".

Lee





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