On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, regis wrote:
> I've had a working desktop installation of Redhat 7.1 for about 2
> years. No big problems. Yesterday it failed to boot giving the
> following message:
>
> /lib/8139too.o: init_module: No such device
This is just casual observation. /lib is not the normal place for kernel
driver modules. Usually something like
/lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o
or more generically
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o
Don't know if that's the issue.
> Hint: insomd errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> Error: /bin/insmod exited abnormally
> Mounting /proc filesystem
> Creating root device
> mount error 19 mounting ext2
> pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed:2
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k freed
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
>
> I can boot to "linux rescue" using the CD. I can mount the root
> filesystem. I've checked to make sure I have an initrd sub-directory
> with correct permissions. I've run fsck and the filesystem is fine.
> So I'm guessing it's a problem somewhere in the 8139too module. I tried
> to install it manually using insmod, but it failed. I tried recompiling
> the module from the source, but I'm not to well versed in compiling from
> source, so after not finding anything more specific in the archives or
> google, I thought I'd try the list.
>
> Any ideas on how to trace down this problem?
>
> thanks,
>
> regis
>
>
>
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