booting L4Linux...

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 14:41:44 +0000, Tiago João Portela Jorge wrote:
> my L4Linux is having trouble booting...
> 
> My Menu.lst is:
> 
> title		Fiasco Linux
> kernel		(nd)/rmgr -sigma0 task modname "vmlinuz" module
> modaddr		0x02000000
> module		(nd)/main -nokdb -nowait -serial_esc -comspeed 115200 -comport 1
> module		(nd)/sigma0
> module 		(nd)/vmlinuz.V2 no-scroll no-hlt l4irqack=linux load_ramdisk=1
> ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram
> module 		(nd)/drops.rd
> 
> And here is the output:
> 
> ###########################################################################
> 
> RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
> RAMDISK: Loading 16384 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
> EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
> kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
> kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
> hwclock calling sys_iopl()
> kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
> hwclock calling sys_iopl()
> kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
> ##################################################
> 
> what might be causing this?

I have never seen this before.

The comment in the code says that modprobe needs a service to run which
is in a module as well so that it gets recursive. Maybe there's
something wrong in your Linux configuration? You could add a printk to
kernel/kmod.c, request_module to better see what's going on.



Adam
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