The machine locks up (ie mouse cursor frozen, clock stops, keyboard sequences dont work) when I plug the ^%! USB modem back in after a successful boot! I'm starting to doubt everything. The cdroms I installed from aren't original -- they were burnt by a friend. uname -r says 2.4.21-0.13mdk -- is that the right kernel version?
I wonder if those RAM chips I bought at the market were OK. I'll do some tests. <Sigh> Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Benham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [expert] 9.1 + dsl-200 = no boot > From: "James Sparenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 14:16, Tim Benham wrote: > > > I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on an elderly IBM Aptiva 2158. Boot locks > up > > > in 'Finding module dependencies' unless I unplug the D-Link dsl-200 USB > adsl > > > modem. Is there a solution? I've searched the archives and the only > thread > > > which might bear on this was in Italian. > > > You could edit rc.sysinit to comment out > > > > if [ -L /lib/modules/default ]; then > > INITLOG_ARGS= action "Finding module dependencies: " depmod -A default > > else > > INITLOG_ARGS= action "Finding module dependencies: " depmod - > > fi > > > > > > But there is a definit risk in that if there is a module change... > > things could get real flakey if you haven't manually done a depmod -A on > > your own before the last shutdown. or if something got kinked there > > would be no "protection" in place to unkink it. > > > > The other point might be that you really need to add something to your > > modules.conf for depmod to find. Do you know what modules it uses (when > > running.) > > James, > > Thanks. I'll try this asap and let you know if it works. I haven't done > anything with modules.conf -- all I did was an "install everything" from the > cdrom set and (fail to) boot. From my searches it looks like I also need to > install the eciadsl driver, but I don't think a usermode driver could fix > the failure to boot. > > cheers, > Tim > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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