On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:14:59PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I just did an "aptitude upgrade" of my Debian Etch system at home. After > this, it refuses to boot with the message: > > request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c > > repeated multiple times :-( The system is well maintained. It is a AMD64 > dual-core system, but the Debian is 32-bit. By the way, I have ACPI disabled > as the system will not boot if it is enabled. > > I searched the web but could not find any solution to this. I assume you've seen this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2006/06/msg00165.html it has no solution, but might be a start. this might help too, at least to get booted: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0102.3/0006.html he suggests "alias binfmt-464c off" > > I booted my Debian Etch release 0 DVD, "rescue" mode. I started a shell in > the root partition and located the Linux-Image on the DVD. The version on > DVD was 2.6.18-4-686. The installed version was 2.6.18-6-686. The > Linux-Image installed without any errors, but on rebooting, 2.6.18-4-686 > gives the same old error as 2.6.18-6-686 :-( You might have a bad initrd as well. I would look at the above alias solution, or perhaps you can blacklist the module for the moment, get booted into the proper system, and then rebuild the initrd. might help. A
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