I'm running into a couple of strange problems, and since I'm fairly new to Linux, I thought I'd beg for some help. I have installed 6.3 4 times at home, and each time I get different error messages (or system strangeness) during startup. Everything seems to work in a general way, but I've got some specific problems. The most common (and the current) problem is that during the bootup, I get a message saying something along the lines of insmod serial.o can't find char major-4, or at least that is in the warn file. I can't figure out what's causing this to happen, nothing appears in the modules.conf, and I had to make a like between /lib/modules/2.2.10 and /lib/modules/2.2.13 for thing to get this far. I haven't heard of anyone having problems like this, and frankly, the same CD's worked wonderfully on my laptop, which just screams along without a hitch (well, as screaming as a 133 can, but anyway). Frankly, I'd suspiscion that I'm not setting something up correctly, but for the life of me I can't guess what it is... Any Guesses, or information that would help formulate a guess? Thanks in advance... Lee -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 09:38 -0600, Fent, Lee wrote:
some specific problems. The most common (and the current) problem is that during the bootup, I get a message saying something along the lines of insmod serial.o can't find char major-4, or at least that is in the warn file. I can't figure out what's causing this to happen, nothing appears in
Let me guess, you compiled your own kernel and included serial support but not as a module? Edit /etc/conf.modules, look for alias char-major-4 serial and change it to alias char-major-4 off otherwise kmod tries to load a nonexistant module. Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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