[ale] Debian 2.2 + Kernel 2.4

David Corbin dcorbin at imperitek.com
Sun Dec 30 18:13:54 EST 2001


Well, that fixed the one line, but I'm still concerned about he runaway init

Fulton Green wrote:

>Try
>	alias char-major-4 off
>then make the good-luck sign of your choice as you reboot. :)
>
>On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:43:30PM -0500, David Corbin wrote:
>
>>Nope.
>>
>>What should it be aliased to?
>>Fulton Green wrote:
>>
>>>Does your modules.conf have char-major-4 aliased to something?
>>>
>>>On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:34:10PM -0500, David Corbin wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've a debian 2.2 system.  I need USB support, so I figured I'd upgrade 
>>>>to Kernel 2.4.17 (the latest).
>>>>
>>>>I followed the instructions available from debian, which basically says 
>>>>to upgrade a bunch of packages.  Built the kernel, and booted.
>>>>
>>>>Everything is functioning OK, from my perspective, but in the syslog 
>>>>file I find
>>>>
>>>>Dec 30 14:25:12 mercury modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4
>>>>Dec 30 14:25:43 mercury last message repeated 22 times
>>>>Dec 30 14:26:43 mercury last message repeated 37 times
>>>>
>>>... etc.
>>>
>
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