Ubuntu :: Rc.local Will Not Execute - Error

I have written a device driver and would like to load it automatically and generate the device nodes. I wrote a config script that I would like to execute at boot and added it to rc.local. It will not run at boot up and I have spent hours researching. The file is below:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local

[code]....

If I execute this script from the command line, it works fine. But it does not work at boot up. The echo command is never executed. The link S99rc.local did not exist in any of the runtime directories. I created S99rc.local in /etc/rc2.d and linked it to ../init.d/rc.local. This did not help. The link /etc/rc2.d/S20rc.local already existed.