> That was why earlier I kept /sbin/modprobe as the name (it's the > default Linux uses) and made sure that the file /sbin/modprobe is already > in the initrd (as opposed to created by boot-system). Note: The simplest change would be to keep this patch as-is but add ;; Make sure that Linux can modprobe even before boot-system started up. (when modprobe (mkdir-p "sbin") (symlink modprobe "sbin/modprobe") (compile-to-cache "sbin/modprobe")) ; Note: without this line booting is dead slow. [Maybe in this case that wouldn't be so bad - since boot-system switches away immediately anyway :)] to gnu/build/linux-initrd.scm