On Saturday 16 August 2003 05:49, Todd Lyons wrote:
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> request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- block-major-8. error = -16

block-major-8 == sd

you are missing SCSI in initrd
[...]

>         append=" devfs=nomount debug noquiet hdc=ide-scsi acpi=on"

I myself never tried this actually but David runs without devfs, apparently it 
should at least boot :)

>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.0-0.test3.1mdk.img
>
> The initrd is present.  I had to take it out of framebuffer because the
> 2.6 kernel just blanks the screen.
>

yes, is appears to be the problem for generic ditribution kernel. So far the 
only advice on lkml was to disable all framebuffer drivers except one you are 
actually using. I have

CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y

and run framebuffer just fine.

I guess someone should investigate it or just disable framebuffer entirely 
(putting some comments about this).

[...]
> [i960RM Bridge] [BRIDGE_PCI] megaraid        : Intel Corp.|MegaRAID 467
> Enterprise 1500 RAID Controller [INTELLIGENT_I2O] pcnet32         :

is driver for this available in RPM? It may well be missing I do not know. Do 
you actually have megaraid module?
[...]

> probeall scsi_hostadapter megaraid

[...]

> Here is the modprobe.conf:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/todd]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep -v "^#"
> include /lib/module-init-tools/modprobe.default
> include /lib/module-init-tools/modprobe.compat
>
>
> Does anybody see anything really obvious that I'm overlooking.  I tend
> to think that the lack of lines in /etc/modprobe.conf is probably
> causing my problem.
>

yes. it is empty so mkinitrd can't find neccessary modules. At the very least 
please generate it using

TESTING_MODPROBE_CONF=/etc/modules.conf generate-modprobe,conf >> 
/etc/modprobe.conf

and recreate initrd. If you get current modul-init-tools from 
http://supermount-ng.sf.net/mdk-25/ you can skip TESTING_MODPROBE_CONF - it 
does the right thing.


Now I would be _very_ intersted to know why it did not create modprobe.conf. 
Have you updated or installed module-init-tools?

It is going to be a problem. So what people think if I change spec from

if new install
  generate modprobe conf

to

if modprobe.conf is empty
  generate modprobe.conf

??? It seems that current case more prblems than it helps ...

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