Re: Minor errors after kernel-upgrade
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:09:52AM +0200, Vitux wrote
> Hi Debians
> Running Slink, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.2.14 to
> gain a little speed and get rid of SCSI support. I also
> enabled sound.
> The box is running smooth, but I get a few errors while
> booting.
> 1) Some of the very first messages from the kernel are
> (according to dmesg):
> Klogd 1.3-3#31, log source=/proc/kmsg started
> Cannot find map file.
> No module symbols loaded.
It's looking for /boot/System.map-2.2.14; if you use
make-kpkg to build your kernel packages, this will be
installed with your kernel and modules. It doesn't
hurt if it isn't there, but klogd won't be able to turn
kernel addresses in messages into function names.
> 2) Later, after "mounting local filesystems", /dev/hdc/ is
> mounted on /home and /dev/hdd1 is on /usr. Then: SIOCADDRT:
> Invalid argument.
This is because of a change in the way routing works between
kernels 2.0 and 2.2. You used to add a route for the network
address when you configured a network interface, you don't
any more. If it irritates you, comment out the line(s)
route add -net 127.0.0.0
route add -net ${NETWORK}
from /etc/init.d/network. Aside from the message no harm is
done.
> 3) I compiled support for cd-rom into the kernel; now it
> says it can't find the cdrom module, but seems to
> acknowledge the drive fine. Do I need to edit some .conf so
> that it doesn't attempt to load the module?
>
Probably, you used modconf to automatically load the cdrom
module at boot time; this adds the module's name to
/etc/modules. Remove that line and it won't try to load the
module anymore. Again, no harm done.
John P.
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