by Babu » Sun, 24 Dec 2000 08:50:34
Tried installing 4.2-Release on an AMD K2-350 box equipped with 128M ram and
generic ATA drives but the install floppy fails with the following error:
can't load module '/kernel': no such file or directory.
I've tried a new floppy and even went as far as booting with a 3.5 install
floppy but got the same error message.
Thanks in advance.
by Tore Lun » Sun, 24 Dec 2000 18:54:10
> Hi All,
> Tried installing 4.2-Release on an AMD K2-350 box equipped with 128M ram and
> generic ATA drives but the install floppy fails with the following error:
> can't load module '/kernel': no such file or directory.
> I've tried a new floppy and even went as far as booting with a 3.5 install
> floppy but got the same error message.
If not, you are trying to boot with the MFSROOT floppy, whose default
boot parameters are indeed 0:fd(0,a)/kernel.
A fresh 1.44 MB KERN floppy will try to boot 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader, so
writing these parameters at the boot prompt should always work, AFAIK.
--
Tore
by Babu » Tue, 26 Dec 2000 03:21:27
No. it's a 1.44 The same floppy boots fine in another machine (PIII). EvenQuote:> Are you using a 2.88 MB floppy? We have seen this error a few times
What I ended up doing was booting from the cdrom which went fine. Don't askQuote:> now, so I suspect there is a problem with this image (and maybe the CD
> image too).
BTW, this is all very curious. I even tried booting a FB-3.5 install floppy
and got the same error message.
Not sure if a Windows virus on the floppy can have an affect but when I have
time, I am going to test that out by creating the install floppy from BSD. I
would think rawrite imaging the floppy would wipe out any boot sector
viruses.
Thanks for your help.
1. RPM 'error' and modules won't load
I have a problem with rpm.
I installed RedHat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36-0.7
Then I downloaded and installed the
kernel-source-2.2.5-15-i386.rpm package. But after
compiling and installing rpm -q kernel still reports
kernel-2.0.36-0.7 ! This causes dependancies for some
other pachages, which require kernel >= 2.2.0 to fail.
rpm -bb kernel-source-2.2.5-15-i386.rpm won't work
because it is not a source package. How can I change
the kernel version rpm thinks I have ? I haven't found
a solution in the rpm man pages or HOWTO...
Secondly after I configured, made and installed the new
kernel and modules I found a problem:
the kernel works fine and all fs related modules load
and function. But all hardware related modules won't
load (parport, isdn, ethernet). They give errors:
Unresolved symbol: __global_sti
Unresolved symbol: __global_cli
and some more..
I found these functions in arch/i386/irq.c in the kernel
source tree. This file is compiled and linked into
kernel.o which finally goes into vmlinux/vmlinuz.
They _do_ appear in System.map, so I don't understand
why they can't be resolved...
Some details: RedHat 5.2, upgraded with:
glibc-2.1.1-6
modutils-2.1.121-4
binutils-2.9.1.0.23-1
kernel-source-2.2.5-15
kernel-headers-2.2.5-15
+ some more...
on a SMP P_II system.
Does anyone have a suggestion ?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Kind regards,
Matthijs van der Molen
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