From: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:02:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: dm-mod: also check for device-mapper support using /proc/misc
X-Git-Tag: v0.52~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=14e6e302b573daa4c28bc86909d7aca11f542496

dm-mod: also check for device-mapper support using /proc/misc

As noted in http://gsocdebian.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/dm_mod/
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diff --git a/grml-debootstrap b/grml-debootstrap
index 7f367ec..60358d3 100755
--- a/grml-debootstrap
+++ b/grml-debootstrap
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ prepare_vm() {
 
   # 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