On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, regis wrote: > I've had a working desktop installation of Redhat 7.1 for about 2 > years. No big problems. Yesterday it failed to boot giving the > following message: > > /lib/8139too.o: init_module: No such device This is just casual observation. /lib is not the normal place for kernel driver modules. Usually something like /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o or more generically /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o Don't know if that's the issue. > Hint: insomd errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, > including > invalid IO or IRQ parameters > Error: /bin/insmod exited abnormally > Mounting /proc filesystem > Creating root device > mount error 19 mounting ext2 > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed:2 > Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k freed > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > > I can boot to "linux rescue" using the CD. I can mount the root > filesystem. I've checked to make sure I have an initrd sub-directory > with correct permissions. I've run fsck and the filesystem is fine. > So I'm guessing it's a problem somewhere in the 8139too module. I tried > to install it manually using insmod, but it failed. I tried recompiling > the module from the source, but I'm not to well versed in compiling from > source, so after not finding anything more specific in the archives or > google, I thought I'd try the list. > > Any ideas on how to trace down this problem? > > thanks, > > regis > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
