From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 Firefox/1.0.2 Red Hat/1.0.2-1.4.1 Description of problem: When a user added multiple option lines for the same driver module such as options scsi_mod max_luns=255 options scsi_mod max_report_luns=256 to the /etc/modprobe.conf The /sbin/mkinitrd will build a ramdisk with the "init" file that has the following lines insmod /lib/scsi_mod.ko max_luns=255 max_report_luns=256 Please note that the a "new line" is inserted between the two module parameter settings. When a system is booted with the new initrd image, the following errors will be logged ERROR: max_report_luns=256 exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/sd_mod.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/sg.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/mppUpper.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/aic7xxx.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/qla2xxx.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/qla2300.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/mppVhba.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/dm-mod.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/jbd.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/ext3.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/dm-mirror.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/dm-zero.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! insmod: error inserting '/lib/dm-snapshot.ko': -1 File exists ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! The two module parameters in separate lines are leagal. The modprobe command handles this correctly Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-4.1.18-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. add options scsi_mod max_luns=255 options scsi_mod max_report_luns=256 to /etc/modprobe.conf 2. mkinitrd 3. reboot the system Additional info: