[Libguestfs] febootstrap: what am I doing wrong?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Jun 1 11:12:53 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:26:14AM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> * Richard W.M. Jones:
> 
> > I guess that either /lib/modules is missing from the Debian packages
> > altogether, or one of the packages that we exclude contains this
> > directory.
> 
> You are right. /lib/modules is not part of the "base system":
> 
> ,----
> | $ dlocate /lib/modules | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u
> | linux-headers-2.6.39-1-amd64
> | linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64
> | linux-image-2.6.39-1-amd64
> | module-init-tools
> `----
> 
> I was also wondering about that other thing that failed in my tests: Do
> RedHat and/or Fedora ship kernels that automatically mount /proc on
> boot?

No, it was failing and we didn't notice.

Rich.

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