Sage,Sage wrote:One of the curious features of this installation is that 'depmod' in console reports 'Bus Error'. Never seen it before, no idea what it's all about, but noticed that the booting process pauses for a very long time >5mins at depmod.
/sbin/depmod is the "full" depmod, which does have problems on systems without much RAM.
On the system that exhibits the "Bus Error" and slowness, would you kindly try both depmod's:
# depmod
# busybox depmod
...the first line will run the full depmod, the second line will run the busybox depmod.
Let us know the differences in behaviour between the two.