Re: 2.3.29 kernel, boot failure with modprobe error

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 19:38:01 EST


On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:25:25 -0800 (PST),
shailesh@icp.siemens.com (Shailesh K Basani) wrote:
>I am trying to boot 2.3.29 kernel on a Redhat 6.2 system with
>the following hardware:
>
>2 Intel Pentium Pro CPUs, ncr53c8xx - version 3.2a-2
>
>(My SCSI driver is set to Y, ELF is set Y in the config)

>scsi : 0 hosts.

Either you compiled the SCSI driver as a module (double check your
.config) or it was compiled as builtin but failed to detect the
hardware (ask the ncr53c8xx maintainer).

>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2

Trying to load the SCSI driver. Fix the "scsi : 0 hosts" and this
problem will go away.

>VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01

08:xx is SCSI, side effect of no host found.

>NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0, registers:

NMI oops is a side effect of having no root. This is not a modprobe
problem, modprobe is only being called because the kernel needs root on
SCSI but there are no SCSI hosts found. Fix the hosts problem and the
rest should disappear.

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