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Re: 2.2.13 cannot load modules



On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 08:13:40AM -0800, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
> 
> I just compiled and booted 2.2.13 (sun4c, Sparc IPX) on a BARE Slink
> system (base dbootstrap install plus potato's apt, plus
> kernel-package+gcc) and saw a couple interesting problems.
> 
> Firstly when I booted the machine to 2.2.13 for the first time I got
> several hundred lines of errors saying something like 'operation not
> permitted on /dev/cua0' and then a panic in the swapper process. So far
> this problem hasn't been reproducable.
> 
> I am booting with console on serial port A, so it would already be in use.
> 
> The main problem is that insmod says for my modules 'ELF file not for this
> archetecture' and fails to load anything.
> 
> I did compile on the Sparc, but had the kernel source tree NFS-mounted.

I assume that you have the modutils from potato aswell. They are currently
in flux due to a sparc/sparc64 mismatch problem. I'm working on uploading
a fixed set today. You can in the meantime, either downgrade to slink's
modutils, or recompile the potato source yourself.

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