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

[Scott Eicher]

Great,

I'll give that a try. I actually haven't applied any patches yet. I don't
have it on the network yet.

Thanks Don!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanco, Donald [mailto:VANCOD at pios.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 4:01 PM
To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
Subject: RE: [wplug] Red Hat kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe...


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