Subject: Re: Problems loading RAM dsk image on Starmax 4000
From: Vincent Smedley (vince.smedley@quista.net)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 12:04:49 MDT
matt, that worked fine thanks, however the kernal load failed at the
next step, anyone got any suggestions?
kmode: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k usbdevfs, erno = 2
mounting /proc/bus/usb filesystem... failed
I can't recover from this.
Thanks, Vince
On Monday, July 30, 2001, at 03:19 , fulghum, matt wrote:
> Vince, try increasing the size of your ram disk in bootx. needs a
> minimum
> of 12 megabytes just to complete the boot. 16 meg seems to work ok in
> my
> experience.
>
> --matt
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vince.smedley@quista.net [mailto:vince.smedley@quista.net]
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 6:31 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Problems loading RAM dsk image on Starmax 4000
>
>
> I purchased a copy of Yellow Dog 2.0 from a resent trade fair in London.
> We have
> an old Starmax 4000 MT MAC Clone in the lab and when I try and load
> either of
> the supplied RAM disk images I get the following errors during the boot
> process
> which results in a kernel freeze:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 01:00 rw=0, want=8197, limit=8192
> dev 01:00 blksize=1024 blocknr=8196 sector=16392 size=1024 count=1
> EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)):read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block
> bitmap-block_group = 1, block_bitmap = 52428800
>
> the above was copied off the screen and continues in a similar vein
> until the
> system locks. Is this a symptom of a corrupt CD?
>
> -- Vince
>
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