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Re: request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c



This one time, at band camp, Rudy Gevaert said:
> Hi,
> 
> These are my first steps in 64bit land...
> 
> I've installed a 64 bit kernel on a 32 bit system (Dell PE1850).  I then 
> created a 64 bit chroot on the system.  In that chroot I have then 
> created an nfsroot with with a kernel I compiled.
> 
> Now when booting from that nfsroot it stops on the following error:
> 
> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c
> 
> I'm using a 2.6.16.20 in that nfsroot.
> 
> What can I do to solve this problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance,

That usually signals a mismatch between the word size of the kernel and
the userspace modprobe (one is 32bit and one is 64bit).

HTH,
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