As noted in http://gsocdebian.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/dm_mod/
# if dm-mod isn't available then kpartx will fail with
# "Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? [...]"
# if dm-mod isn't available then kpartx will fail with
# "Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? [...]"
- if ! kpartx -av $TARGET >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+ if ! kpartx -av $TARGET >/dev/null 2>&1 || ! grep -q device-mapper /proc/misc >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
einfo "Device-mapper not ready yet, trying to load dm-mod module."
modprobe dm-mod ; eend $?
fi
einfo "Device-mapper not ready yet, trying to load dm-mod module."
modprobe dm-mod ; eend $?
fi