Modprobe error, but no problem

[Paradox]

Hi

I've been fiddeling around with setting up a linux from scratch system. When It boots up I get the error:

Mounting other file systems ... modprobe:
modprobe: Can't locate module nls_cp437

and it repeats the last line about 10 times. The thing is eveything runs perfectly (Well, not quite ... I think I will be making some posts about X windows before to long ... but anyway) and I can access all my partitions. I have put my other linux partition and my fat partitions in my /etc/fstab file, so that they are loaded on boot, and I can access them all no problems ...

Any idea what is causing the error?

thanks in advance

-Luke

[demian]

I had the exact same error message with my LFS system though I didn't pay much attention to it. By now I re-organzied the filesystem structure as I built the base system on a single 700MB partition. And after I moved everything in place the error never occured again. Now I know that's no answer to your question... just my 2 cent

[PLBlaze]

When you compile kernel, under file systems there's another menu for languages/code pages...simply go there and select nls_cp437 (native language selection_code page437=US i belive) as module then proceed to compile your kernel usual way.Hope this helps.

[Paradox]

Hi

problem solved! Thanks alot!

Now, however all those error messages are gone I can see some new ones that were previously scrolled off the screen :-)

cant win, can I :-)

Does anybody know where in menuconfig, I would be able to enable the modules net-pf-9 and net-pf-10, because now it cant find them...

Ok, thanks again.
- Luke

[Ripley]

This isn't a direct answer to your question, but...

If I remember rightly, from reading the helpscreen for each kernel option, certain options, when compiled as modules, require specific additions to the /etc/modules.conf file. Or was it conf.modules, I think they changed it at some time, one way or the other.

Either way it gives you a warning when you do a depmod -a and you have named the file incorrectly.

alias net-pf-10 (or something like it) was one of those lines that needed to be added.

Its a good idea to read each of the help files for the kernel options.

After playing around with various module use (I threw everything into the kernel eventually :-) I also found that I had to recompile the Net-Tools package to get rid of a similar message to what you are describing.