Subject: Re: failed to exec modprobe -- serious trouble
From: Olaf Hering (olh@suse.de)
Date: Sat Oct 21 2000 - 16:21:56 MDT
On Sat, Oct 21, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
> I upgraded a few RPMs (initscripts, setup) in preparation for
> trying out XFree86 4.0.1 since they were needed as
> prerequisites. I them upgraded XFree86 and my PowerBook screen
> went black. OK, so I rebooted.
>
> Upon reboot, I got a message like:
>
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt -4c46 errno=8
You should use ppc rpms and not i386 rpms. Makes less trouble :)
> repeatedly. I'm now stuck. I can't boot into Linux any more
> via BootX. Trying old kernels I have gets me the same result.
>
> I think I'm in deep trouble. Anybody know how to fix this?
>
> The only thing that works so far is that I can boot into the
> YDL installed off the ramdisk image. Can I reinstall YDL
> (without formatting the disks) and still have all my data be
> there? Is there a less drastic measure?
I don't know the RedHat installer, but when you don't format the
partition it might work.
Gruss Olaf
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