[suse-sparc] modprobe error on installation

From: Bob Van Cleef (vancleef@microunity.com)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 15:07:20 PST

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    Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:07:20 -0800 (PST)
    From: Bob Van Cleef <vancleef@microunity.com>
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112031505370.32585-100000@arwin.microunity.com>
    Subject: [suse-sparc] modprobe error on installation
    

    Two new installations using Serial console of SuSE 7.3 from a CD set on
    both a Sparc10 and a Sparc5. Both cases failed with the very informative
    error message, "An error occurred during the installation!" YaST seems to
    run and allows me to set various options and to restart the installation,
    but the installation on both systems always fails.

    One poosible clue is the following modprobe error that appears during the
    boot cycle on both systems.

    [begin extract of log]
    PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2
    Linux version 2.2.20 (root@SPARC.suse.de) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
    19990314/Li1
    ARCH: SUN4M
    TYPE: SPARCstation 5

    [... snip ...]

    RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
    Uncompressing.............................................done.
    autodetecting RAID arrays
    autorun ...
    ... autorun DONE.
    VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
    Movikmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k shm, errno = 2
    ng into tmpfs...>>> SuSE kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
    char-major-42
    installation program v1.2 (c) 1996-2001 SuSE GmbH <<<
    Starting hardware detection...
    [end extract of log]

    Bob

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