Re: FC Development on s390 using Hercules

[Matthias Saou <thias spam spam spam spam spam spam spam egg and spam freshrpms net>]

Matthias Saou wrote :

> Dave Jones wrote :
> 
> >  > 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 ?
> 
> Hmmm... not that I can recall. The console has always "just worked"
> from within hercules itself, run from a terminal. Maybe this has
> changed in recent versions of hercules, I'll keep looking. Thanks for
> the pointer!

There definitely seems to be some bug in the Fedora installation : I'm
installing Red Hat Linux 7.2 using ftp as I write...

I've filed a report against "distribution" and "s390" since I don't
know if this is an anaconda problem or something deeper.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197580

Matthias

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