Re: No /bin/insmod on RedHat 5.1 Alpha boot floppies???

["Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon netpr com>]

At 02:14 PM 8/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Neil Harkins wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Barrett G. Lyon wrote:
>> > >/bin/insmod: No such file or directory.
>> > >
>> > The images are not defective, what that means is that your SCSI
adapter was
>> > not detcted during boot, and the tools needed to use the module for NCR
>> > 53C8xxx were not loaded from the image.
>> > 
>> > Make sure your card is configured correctly, 
>> > or try a different SCSI adapter.  
>> 
>> It's not a card. It's on-board. :( And it sure finds it during the boot:
>> 
>> ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
>> ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected
>> ncr53c810-0: rev=0x02, base=0x580100, io_port=0x8800, irq=11
>> ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
>> ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset).
>> scsi : ncr53c8xx - revision 2.5f
>> scsi : 1 host
>> scsi : detected total.
>
>Well, that solves your problem.  It is built into the kernel at boot, so
>when it tries to load it via insmod, it shouldn't load it because you
>already have it built into the kernel.  In other words, you don't need the
>module anyway.

OR:

What he pasted might have been what milo sees rather than what the kernel
is finding.  I bet his SCSI bios loads, and milo see the card, but the
kernel is not working with it for some reason.

I had a problem much like this with the Intel EtherExpress cards during one
of my AXP Linux installs.

-Barrett



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