Re: custom kernel init probs
Hi Thanx i just checked i have hotplug installed now iadded hotplug-utils
(which i dint have) im gonna try it out note that i have a fully funktional
kernal-image 2.4.18 for k7 prcompiled from the mirror wich didnt complain
about those thats what surprises me.
Anyhow ill try and we will see .
Thanx for help
Flo
On Sunday 10 March 2002 23:51, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On 10 Mar 2002, Florian Struck wrote:
> > Hi i have just built my own (first ever =) ) kernel (2.4.18).
> > Well after about 4 tries (changing adding supports in menuconfig)
> > i got him boot and it all looks very promising until the point where it
> > inits runlevel2 first there is a weird 4 line message about hotplug some
> > comands not found (hotplug support is activated in kernel) but it
> > continues loading untill it bails out at klogd with following msg:
>
> If I remember correctly (someone correct me if I am wrong) you need the
> package hotplug (this contains /sbin/hotplug). See the package man page at
> http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/hotplug.html . I would also
> recommend the packages hotplug-utils and usb-utils.
>
> Also check out http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html See particularly the
> section on hotplugging, http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html#gs4
>
> At least for me, this worked flawlessly right out of the box with
> Woody/2.4.17, though it does seem to be in a very early stage of
> development. I just installed the Debian packages hotplug-utils and
> hotplug. Note that I'm not using devfs.
>
> Here is a tip. When you see a command not found, go to the packages search
> page (packages.debian.org) and go to the "Search the contents of packages"
> section near the bottom, and input the command you are looking for. In
> this case, it would have led you straight to the package hotplug. It is
> usually also simply worth trying "apt-cache search whatever", which only
> searches package descriptions. In this case that would have worked too.
>
> Faheem.
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