Compaq Evo N1000c w/Slackware 10.0 kmod:failed to exec /sbin/modprobe ... erno = 2
 

I recently fully switch over to linux at home after playing with a few distros for about a year. Slack was what changed my mind. So I decided to dual boot my office laptop. Installation was fairly easy and I tweaked the settings to customize and improve performance, but on boot I get have the following message repeated three times

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2

I am under the impression that errno=2 means file not found
just in case, I confirmed that /sbin/modprobe does exist and it does (thankfully :)
following is my dmesg

Linux version 2.4.26 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.4) #6 Mon Jun 14 19:07:27 PDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffd0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffd0000 - 000000000fff0c00 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0c00 - 000000000fffc000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fffc000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65488
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61392 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302 hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1794.200 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3578.26 BogoMIPS
Memory: 255876k/261952k available (1844k kernel code, 5688k reserved, 618k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz stepping 07
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: BIOS32 entry (0xc00f0000) in high memory, cannot use.
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/248c] at 00:1f.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
vesafb: framebuffer at 0x48000000, mapped to 0xd080d000, size 1536k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=41
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:53e7
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:05.0
ICH3M: chipset revision 2
ICH3M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4440-0x4447, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4448-0x444f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: IC25N040ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03b3360, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-4240N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=5168/240/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
<--------------------here------------------------>
<--------------------here------------------------>
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
<--------------------here------------------------>
<--------------------here------------------------>
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 2074.400 MB/sec
32regs : 1359.200 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 2318.000 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 2117.200 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 2069.200 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (2318.000 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,2)) ...
for (ide0(3,2))
ide0(3,2):Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Adding Swap: 498952k swap-space (priority -1)
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x60000000
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE]
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: RW/DVD GCC-4240N Rev: 0111
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:06.0
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x0298, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03af: excluding 0x378-0x37f
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0e.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0e.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0e.1
ehci_hcd 02:0e.2: NEC Corporation USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 02:0e.2: irq 10, pci mem d0b1e000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 02:0e.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 5 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0e.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0e.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0e.2
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0b26000, IRQ 10
usb-ohci.c: usb-02:0e.0, NEC Corporation USB
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:0e.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0e.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0e.2
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0b28000, IRQ 10
usb-ohci.c: usb-02:0e.1, NEC Corporation USB (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 02:0e.0-2, assigned address 2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb2:2.0
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin and others
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 02:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0e.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0e.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 02:0e.2
eth0: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller, 00:08:02:BA:26:A5, IRQ 10.
Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
Board assembly 020147-001, Physical connectors present: AUI MII
Primary interface chip DP83840A PHY #3.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:05.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[40280000-402807ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000802719dd81921]
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 02:04.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49855 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
i810_rng: RNG not detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:55:05 Jun 13 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver