Please bear with me since I'm a total newbie. I received a TQM850L starter kit a couple of days ago. I was able to replace the monitor with PPCBOOT and also got it to boot pMulti(kernel + ramdisk image) built from SELF with thttpd added in. After a few tweaks here and there, most utilites(ping,thttpd,telnet,etc) are working great.
But on bootup, I noticed that modprobe is complaining that it "Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.4/modules.dep". After I copied the empty file lib/modules/2.4.4/modules.dep from ELDK/ppc_8xx into the ramdisk and built pMulti, modprobe complains that it cannot locate module block-major-3. Here's a snippent of the bootup: ..... TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). init started: BusyBox v0.60.2 (2002.09.14-00:34+0000) multi-call modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3 mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt failed: No such device ......... I did a "modprobe -c" after bootup and saw that block-major-3 is an alias of ide-probe-mod. Does this mean that I need to get ide-probe-mod.o into the ramdisk? I tried copying ide-probe-mod.o into /lib/modules/ide but modprobe still complains about block-major-3 on bootup. Keying "modprobe ide-probe-mod.o" after bootup outputs "Can't locate ide-probe-mod.o". Even though I'm not using an IDE drive, I'm curious as to why modprobe would complain... Thanks a million, dennis dkhoo at atmxdsl.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
