User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-1.1 Firefox/3.0.5

When I run mkinitrd, I get the following error:

device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address

A googled up solution:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2008-12/msg01526.html

--- /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Bootloader/Tools.pm.orig 2008-12-21 15:06:29.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Bootloader/Tools.pm 2008-12-21 15:06:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -622,6 +622,7 @@
}

my @dm_devs = qx{$dmsetup info -c --noheadings -o name | grep -v part};
+ chomp @dm_devs;
if ($dm_devs[0] !~ /No devices found/) {
foreach my $dmdisk (@dm_devs) {
my @tables = qx{$dmsetup table '$dmdisk'};

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credit to Josef Wolf

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make
2. make modules_install
3. make modules
Actual Results:  
Fail

Expected Results:  
Success