Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 06:07:37PM +0900, Sean Schertell wrote:
> Please help! I've gotta get some work done quickly but I seem to have
> killed my yaboot and can't boot. It's on a PowerBook, so no floppy. I got
> hit with the bug in module-init-tools 3.1-pre2-1 which causes this
> craziness:
>
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something...
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something...
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something...
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something...
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something...
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something...
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something...
> modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something...
>
> (times about a hundred or so)
>
> This happened when I tried to install 2.6.6 so for the past few weeks I've
> been typing "old" at the boot prompt and using an old 2.4 kernel.
You should just be able to upgrade module-init-tools and regenerate the
initrd.
> So now I installed the 2.7 kernel which has the same problem and to
> make things worse, typing old now causes the 2.6.6 kernel to boot and
> panic.
Say your 2.4 kernel was on partition 11, path
/boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc; now type
'hd:11,/boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc' at yaboot.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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