From: Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test4 doesn't boot (solved)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:03:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3970D1A4.CDB94884@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 396F289B.7D5705EF@wanadoo.fr
Martin Costabel wrote:
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> and then a never ending loop of
>
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-4c46, errno=8
Sorry to answer my own question, but I don't want to leave loose ends in
the list archives.
Took me a long time to hunt this down to a recent patch in
include/asm-ppc/elf.h which wasn't delivered to me by rsync.
The result was that the kernel didn't understand the ELF bin-format of
/sbin/init, then asked modprobe to load a module for the unknown format,
didn't understand the bin-format of /sbin/modprobe, etc ad infinitum.
The reason why this file wasn't sent to me by rsync was related to the
recent clock changes, which made me run sometimes with a wrong system
time. So what I learned from this story (apart from a lot about the
inner workings of kmod, execve, binfmt_elf, and the boot process) is:
Never use "rsync -au" while your system time is not correct!
--
Martin
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2000-07-14 14:50 2.4.0-test4 doesn't boot Martin Costabel
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