From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:03:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:03:46 -0500 Received: from green.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.57]:53218 "EHLO green.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:03:40 -0500 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010125015343.00a8fe10@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:04:06 +0000 To: "Sergey Kubushin" From: Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11 Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org As I don't use initrd at all I am a bit out of my depth here but according to Documentation/Changes you need a new mkinitrd and the version suggested seems to be 2.8-1. Checking my up-to-date RedHat 7.0 workstation it has mkinitrd version 2.6-1, so this might be your problem? Best regards, Anton At 01:39 25/01/2001, Sergey Kubushin wrote: >On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > >Modules don't load. I do usually compile heavily modular kernels, with ide >and ext2fs being also modular. When trying to load them from initrd, I have >the following output: > >=== Cut === >ide-mod.o: Can't handle sections of type 32131 >ide-probe-mod.o: Can't handle sections of type 256950710 >ext2.o: Can't handle sections of type 688840897 >=== Cut === > >I suspect that all modules are affected, but can't check it because kernel >is unable to mount root filesystem. > >All of ac9-ac11 behave the same. ac4, vanilla 2.4.0 and a whole bunch of >pre's are fine, so it looks like something was broken between ac4 and ac9 (I >didn't compile anything inbetween). > >I use gcc-2.95.2, binutils-2.10.1.0.4, modutils-2.4.2, glibc-2.2.1. The >initrd image is romfs. I don't think something was broken in romfs, 'coz >all the programs run just fine outta the image (static ash, static insmod). > >Config is available and can be sent on request. Please let me know if I can >help to find out what causes such a bug. [snip] -- "Programmers never die. They do a GOSUB without RETURN." - Unknown source -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/