FC Development on s390 using Hercules

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:58:29PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Following some other "useless but fun" stuff, I've been trying to get
 > the s390 FC Development tree installed using Hercules, mainly as a way
 > to test and clean up the hercules package.
 > 
 > The 3.04.1-2.fc6 package that just got rebuilt in Extras Development
 > (not yet pushed) works pretty much out-of-the-box, one just needs to
 > follow the quick instructions found in the README.fedora file.
 > 
 > Here is my current issue : I get the kernel to boot, the system seems
 > to come up, and I even suspect the network setup questions to be part
 > of the installation, woohoo! But...
 > 
 > After I enter all the network configuration (ctc, etc. it's all in
 > README.fedora), Hercules keeps outputting this line over and over, once
 > every few minutes :
 > 
 > request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-4-1
 > request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-4-1
 > request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-4-1
 > request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-4-1
 > request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-4-1
 > 
 > I've tried "modprobe char-major-4-1" on an i386 FCdev system and got
 > "FATAL: Module serial not found.".

That's /dev/tty1
Is there some configuration you have to do to hercules to set
up how it handles consoles perhaps ?

		Dave

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