Bug#107377: boot-floppies: configure device driver
Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> "Carpenter, Dean" <Dean.Carpenter@pharma.com> writes:
>
> > >On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 07:16:01PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > >> tags 107377 + moreinfo
> > >> thanks
> > >>
> > >> You need to look in the logs and tell us what it says there.
> > >
> > > /var/log/messages has nothing unusual (shortened):
> > > kernel and modules was installed successfully
> > > moving away /lib/modules to /lib/modules.old
> > > making /lib/modules a link to /target/lib/modules
> > >
> > > but it still does not show the menue to configure device driver modules.
> > > i didn't find any other log files
>
> I tried to start modconf manually on the second console and it
> complained about /usr/share/something and failed directly.
>
> I linked /target/usr/share -> /usr/share and then it gave the usual
> segfaults and crashed the console. It wasn't possible to type anything
> there anymore. Only ctrl-c gives you a new prompt one line down and a
> bit more indented.
That's kinda evil to symlink that.
To followup with more info, what you need to do is boot with the debug
argument. The exact command line used to start modconf will be in the
logs, then you can run that in tty2 or whatever to track it down.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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