[wplug] Red Hat kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe...

[Vanco, Donald]

Boot into single user mode and rebuild the initrd for the smp kernel -
sounds like the appropriate drivers aren't being pre-loaded
 
I assume you've applied all patches?  There was, at one point, an issue with
SMP kernels, and I think it may have been Xeon specific.... (but if memory
serves this was R1 of the AS product line - it may have been fixed by the
release of ES - which is in the "R2" family)
 
Don
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Eicher [mailto:Scott.Eicher at e-profile.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:54 PM
To: WPLUG Mailing List - Linux info (E-mail)
Subject: [wplug] Red Hat kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe...


I am receiving an error after installing Red Hat ES 2.1 on an IBM Netfinity
6000R with dual 700mhz xeon processors and 1gb of ram in it. I also have a
hardware Raid 5 via IBM's ServeRAID. The error only occurs when I choose to
boot to the smp kernel. If I choose to boot to the non-smp kernel it boots
fine and I get to the root prompt.
Here is the error:
 
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major -8 error=2
vfs cannot open root device "sda3"
please append correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic unable to mount root fs
 
I get this immediately after installing and rebooting. I'm going to submit
this to Red Hat as well but I think I'll get a faster answer from wplug.
 
Thanks,
Scott

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