Bug 63793
Summary: | at boot, modprobe: block-major-2 not found | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Roy Kimbrell <roy.kimbrell> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.2 | ||
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-04-18 21:33:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Roy Kimbrell
2002-04-18 19:40:17 UTC
add alias block-major-2 off to the /etc/modules.conf file that ought to get rid of the message Yeah, that worked just fine. Thanks very much. Guess I should have read the modules.conf man page earlier. I had checked modules.conf, but didn't think to look for a man page. Is my understanding correct that the abilty to boot from a USB device not a part of the kernel as yet? Regards, Roy booting is a bootloader issue (eg lilo/grub) The bootloader needs to load the kernel, and uses the bios for that I assume the bios emulation of a floppy is good enough Once stuff is loaded, the kernel can use the usb floppy as usb; just needs putting the usb drivers in the initrd I think (haven't tried this though... I don't have such a fancy laptop ';) Grub - that's right, it's not the kernel. I tried booting from the floppy, but Grub didn't like it. The USB floppy did get accessed (it made a noise, anyway), but Grub couldn't find a boot image - this is with a boot floppy created during the install. I should try this with lilo some time - when I've got some time to mess with it. Thanks for your help, Roy By the way, I don't know if you want to close this or not. I, personally, don't need to be able to boot from a USB floppy (the cdrom is fine) and my block-major-2 issue is fixed. If you want to close it, please feel free. Roy I rather close it; the "boot from usb floppy" doesn't have much to do with the block-major-2 topic and should be in a separate bug really. |