I tried to create an initrd for a kernel I built myself and got something like: $> mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.24.img 2.6.24 FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24': No such file or directory An initrd was produced, but trying to boot it totally failed because there was no modules.dep. The fix seems simple: -/sbin/depmod -F /boot/System.map-$kernel -a -b $MNTIMAGE $kernel +/sbin/depmod -a -b $MNTIMAGE $kernel The depmod manpage suggests that -F is useless without -e, so we shouldn't bother. Also, wouldn't it be better to completely fail if depmod fails?
Created attachment 293299 [details] fix-depmod-invocation.patch
Fixed in git; will be in mkinitrd-6.0.52 .
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Long since fixed