Subject: Re: Installer Does Not Boot - USB failure
From: Takashi Oe (toe@unlserve.unl.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 11:00:28 MDT
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:02:56 -0400, Bob Garrett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a fairly experienced linux user, and am having troubles installing your new release onto our Mac 7600/200 webserver. I tried both text and X11 ramdisk images. The boot process halts with this error message:
>
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k usbdevfs, errno = 2
> mounting /proc/bus/usb filesystem... failed
>
> I can't recover from this.
> <blink><blink>
>
> So, modprobe failed. Is there a switch I can enter into bootx which will turn this specific "feature" off? Or do I just have to sit and wait a few more weeks until a fix comes out?
Use the kernel which came with the CD. If that's not an option,
compile your kernel with USB support as well as usb filesystem
support. If that's not an option, either, try a text mode
installer at
ftp://nubus-pmac.sf.net/pub/nubus-pmac/ramdisk-text.image.gz-YDL2.0-nbpmac.
Takashi Oe
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