From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Mark Hatle <fray@mvista.com>
Cc: Phill Treddenick <Phillip.Treddenick@colorado.edu>,
"linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org"
<linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Problem booting kernel on EP405
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:57:52 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030527235752.GB21036@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ED392E0.7060101@mvista.com>
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:31:28AM -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>
> Phill Treddenick wrote:
> >Hi,
> > I am trying to run Monta Vista Linux PE 2.1 on an EP405 with Solaris 2.7
> > as
> >the host. When I boot the kernel on the EP405 though, I get a couple of
> >boot
> >error messages. The kernel continues booting however and gets to a login
> >prompt, if I try to login though it fails. Can anyone provide me with
> >information about the errors I'm getting. Specifically, the "modprobe:
> >modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4" and the "mknod: `/dev/ptmx':
> >Operation not permitted" errors. I would like to know where I would find
> >the
> >char-major-4 module or why the kernel can't find it. Here are the boot
> >messages
> >and a failed login attempt. Thanks guys.
>
> You can safely ignore the modprobe message.. it's not an error bug really a
> warning. Now for the other issue.. the mknod error and the unable to
> login.. See
> below:
>
> >IP-Config: Complete:
> > device=eth0, addr=128.138.189.65, mask=255.255.255.0,
> > gw=255.255.255.255,
> > host=sme, domain=, nis-domain=colorado.edu,
> > bootserver=128.138.189.51, rootserver=128.138.189.51, rootpath=
>
> >VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
>
> >mknod: `/dev/ptmx': Operation not permitted
>
> >login[82]: unable to change tty `/dev/console' for user `root'
> >
> >Unable to change tty /dev/console: Illegal seek
>
> The above shows that you are NFS rooted. On your NFS root, it was unable to
> mknod /dev/ptmx. Either you have a RO NFS export on your slowlaris box, or
> somehow you are exporting a system in which you are unable to create device
> nodes. /dev/ptmx is required for the multi-user login to work. It
> controls the
> PTYs.
>
> The second error if that it is unable to change the tty for /dev/console to
> root. This again indicates that there is a problem with device nodes over
> your
> NFS mount. Make sure the NFS mount is RW.
And make sure it doesn't have root_squash enabled.
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2003-05-27 16:23 Problem booting kernel on EP405 Phill Treddenick
2003-05-27 16:31 ` Mark Hatle
2003-05-27 23:57 ` David Gibson [this message]
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