[H-GEN] RH modules

[Christopher Biggs]

Paul Gearon <gearon at computer.org> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Hi all,
> Does anyone out there in RedHat Linux land know which module 
> char-major-4 is?  I'm running my sparc headless at the moment, and 
> every 5 minutes /var/log/messages is getting a whole series of 
> messages that look something like this:
> 

ls -l /dev | grep ^c | grep " 4,"

will tell you:

Console and serial ports.

> 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.

/dev/console *IS* char-major-4.  

Init is trying to write "Init version blahquux starting." to
/dev/console, but there's no such device.  It tries to load the
module, and there's no such module.  Urk!

(When you want to stop kerneld/kmod trying to load a module that you
don't have, put "alias char-major-mumble off" in /etc/conf.modules)

Is your console *working*?   You need *something* as console, even if
it's only a serial port with no device connected.

> Secondly, (and this one should be simple) how do I appropriately 
> redirect the console?  I've never had to do this before now.

try passing console=/dev/<someserialport> as a boot parameter.

Hmmm, I wonder if /dev/null works...?

cjb
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