On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:23:28PM -0500, Hank wrote: > Benn having a few problems installing woody on a Quadra 950. The install > program finishes and asks to > reboot the system. But it doesn't reboot. I do a hardware reboot with > the reset switch and boot back in > with the appropriate root directory. > The system gives the following message: > Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference. . . > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate char-major-10-135 > The text cursor keeps blinking, but the program refuses to go any > further. Any ideas? I've seen similar symptoms on a powerpc iBook, because the *wrong* rtc module is being loaded in order to talk to the system clock -- it tries to load a module which, although compiled for a powerpc, is meant for x86s! If you can boot into single-user mode, you can probably get your system to boot by removing the rtc.o module from somewhere in /lib/modules/<version>/ -- but I don't remember which rtc module is which... Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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