Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 59353
"APM dmi blacklist can't be overruled"
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95) Description of problem: When booting modprobe reports it can't locate block-major-2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RH7.2 on a laptop 2.Boot machine 3. Actual Results: At boot and in messages modprobe line gives the error modprobe: Can't locate block-major-2. It does not appear to affect the running of the machine. Additional info: Hi I have installed rh7.2 on a desktop i586 p200mmx and this error does not occur. The other machine is a Sharp PX AX10 ultralight laptop p3 500. This error occurs everytime i boot the machine. It doesn't appear to affect the operation of linux but i don't know what it is looking for or even what a 'block-major-2' is. [This part is not really a bug but assistance would be appreciated] Also on this laptop, at bootup the kernel detects that it is a Sharp PC-PJ AX series then disables the APM. The reason it does this is i had trouble with APM with rh7.1 and details of the machine were asked for so as to disable the APM on boot. I would like to know if there is a way of getting the kernel to load the APM since later kernel versions may now work with this machine. I have tried apm=on with the loader [using GRUB] assuming i did it right Thanks Carl
block-major-2 is "/dev/fd0", eg the floppy drive. I suspect your laptop doesn't have one built in and hence the kernel not being able to find one.... of course that's harmless unless you actually have a floppy drive :( apm=on is supposed to be the way to override the dmi data; if it doesn't work then I'll investigate why.
Created attachment 44817 [details] cut down version of messages log file
Hi Your right, my laptop does not have a built in floppy it has a usb fdd which i am still trying to workout how to mount. Any ideas:). I tried the apm=on as a kernel command again as shown in the messages file attached about line 12. I am not sure if i have done this right since i have not used grub loader before. I edited the boot details at boot time. ie root (hd),2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda5 apm=on initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img Assuming this is how to pass commands to the kernel, at about line 21 the kernel detects the machine type as Sharp PC-PJ/AX machine detected. Disabling APM. then it disables the APM. When i run apm as a command an error message reports 'No APM support in kernel' Any help would be appreciated Thanks Carl
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