To: alpine-user@lists.alpinelinux.org
From: Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>
Subject: system boot & modloop
Message-ID: <681aa559-6aed-f1cc-8793-52504d67a1f6@libero.it>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 12:44:50 +0200
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Hi all,

I did a fresh install of 3.22 on a ThinkPad amd64. It was not clean, it 
had FreeBSD and Windows. I wanted to keep dual booting and replace FreeBSD.
I had installed Alpine previously on 32bit laptops without issues and 
kept it up-to-date.

Boot from the CD was problematic: it had consistent modloop issues, so 
that the booted system had no ethernet nor wifi.
I looked on the internet and hints were about that existing partitioned 
disk was an issue. I decided to use another Debian USB stick, format it 
and reboot with alpine. DId not help

At the end, the only fix was:
|modloop_verify=no

at boot and I could get into a working Alpine, as usual. I proceeded 
with settup, used whole disk for simplicity. Rebooted and started 
installing all classic stuff for X... nouveau worked, windowmanager, 
basic stuff all fine! Unpacked data backup in my home.

Poweroff & reboot next day, bad surprise: no ethernet, no framebuffer, 
no anything. Appears the system is completely without modules.
I see no modloop errors though. I see no errors at all, except during 
network setup where "no such devices" comes, for obvious reasons. Using 
||modloop_verify=no now doesn't help either, because it is not a modloop 
error.

Any hints what is going wrong and how can debug?

I tried checking "rc-service" and I see acpid is crashed, the rest is 
running.
A check says it is beause of /dev/input/event0 missing

I tried manually starting modloop with:

rc-service modloop

"modloop failed to start" but in messages find that no reason. Is this 
expected on  an installed system?

Riccardo
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