Alan Carpenter wrote:
I have two western digital 60 gig drives. Both were working fine on theNot at all sure this helps ,but , check out,
onboard controller. I installed an Adaptec 1200 raid controller. At first
I couldn't even get to the lilo. Once I went into the raid setup and setup
the drives, it booted to the lilo screen. Linux starts to boot, but hangs
with this message...
"kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-3, errno=z
mount error 6 ext3 flags mounted devfs on /dev"
Then I get a kernal panic and it stops loading.
Im guessing it has something to do with moving the drives to the
controller?? Any help would be great
Alan
http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/35750
seems like maybe it doesn't like your partition table/lilo.conf entries.
also,
http://www.pcdocs.de/pcdocs/deutsch/linux/conf.modules.htm
whole long list of options, one of which mentions,
alias block-major-3 off
also,
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/valhalla-list/2002-November/021334.html
ls -l /dev/hda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Apr 11 2002 /dev/hda
The first letter tell you if it is a (b)lock or (c)aractor device. This is a block device. The 3 is the major device number. You will have a different one. (I could look it up, but you can di it faster this way.)
much more but read for yourself,
also,
://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-26/0711.html
/> modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3/
If you want to get rid of this, add
alias block-major-3 off
in /etc/modules.conf
As I say, I'm not at all sure any of this helps, but obviously these people have experienced similar problems
and resolfved the issues.
John
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