[H-GEN] RH modules

Martin Pool mbp at meesha.humbug.org.au
Tue May 19 23:39:23 EDT 1998


>Does anybody know what >char-major-4 is? 

/usr/src/linux/./include/linux/major.h:22:#define TTY_MAJOR    4

I suppose the sparc ttysuckers don't load if there's no screen attached.

>Now this indicates 2 problems to me.  The first is that modprobe is 
>trying to load char-major-4 and can't find it.  Then when it tries 
>printing this to the console it can't find the console and init emits 
>an error.

I agree.

>Firstly, does anyone know what char-major-4 is, and how I can remove 
>the reference to it?

Try removing the mingettys on the terminals from /etc/inittab.  

>(conf.modules is empty and I couldn't see any apparent references to 
>anything like it in /lib/modules/2.0.30/modules.dep)

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Martin Pool


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