On 2004.02.27 22:33, Craig wrote:
On 27 Feb 2004, at 17:22, Barry Samuels wrote:
When starting to boot I see 'bios data check successful' then there is a pause of two minutes before the boot continues.
Interesting. The 'bios data check successful' message actually comes from LILO rather than from the kernel.
In the log I see 'No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled'.
I am sure I have seen the 'No module symbols loaded' part but I don't remember the 'kernel modules not enabled' part and in my case kernel modules are definitely working because my network card driver is a module and that seems to be loading OK.
I am not sure if this is relevent to the problem at hand anyway - as the pause in booting comes right after that message from LILO it must be happenning either in LILO or in the very first stages of kernel initialisation long before modules get loaded.
Well mine is different. I never select mod versions in the kernel (Due to the webcam I own and kernel testing)
I have mod versions enabled on three 2.6 kernel machines and all seem to work perfectly. All are running Debian testing/unstable and using gcc version 3.3.3 20040125. The only one I have access to at the moment is using module-init-tools 3.0-pre9-1.
On two of the machines I built the kernel on that machine and installed it directly, i.e. doing:
make oldconfig make su cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3 cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.3 cd / rm vmlinuz ln -s boot/vmlinux-2.6.3 vmlinuz lilo cd - make modules_install
The third machine has a slow CPU so I built the kernel on one of the other 2.6 machiines with debian make-kpkg and transferred the .deb file to the slower machine and just installed it like any other package.
I did have some problems with early 2.6 kernels and ACPI on my laptop which would happily lock up shortly after logging in to it. The solution at the time was to tell the kernel not to trust APCI for PCI interrupt routing with append="pci=noacpi" in the lilo.conf file.
HTH, Steve.