Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

2000-08-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Wookey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun 13 Aug, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem? > > Has anyone else even seen these symptoms? > > >- "start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported" > > ... > > This is a 'standar

Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

2000-08-14 Thread Wookey
On Sun 13 Aug, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem? > Has anyone else even seen these symptoms? >- "start ppp0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported" > (asynchonously, after something had triggered diald) This is a 'standard'

Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

2000-08-13 Thread Randolph Chung
> Earlier I reported a problem with installing potato (from scratch) > and getting errors at boot time like: > >kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped > > and many occurrences of: > >modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies files > /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (No such fi

Re: still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

2000-08-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
Maybe try running "depmod -a" before the next reboot. I've seen this as well with 2.2.17pre... -- MegaHAL quote: I think a blowpipe is a marijuana cigarrette. It'll get you deleted!

still-extant potato boot problems (kmod/runany modprobe loop)

2000-08-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
Are there any fixes (or even diagnoses) yet for the following problem? Has anyone else even seen these symptoms? Earlier I reported a problem with installing potato (from scratch) and getting errors at boot time like: kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped and many occurrences of:

Re: Potato boot problems

2000-05-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Christopher DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using the current disk set of potato boot/root disks (build 2.2.13, > 5/5/2000) and the 3-disk set of drivers (May 5 2000). I install the > drivers from the disks before doing anything else, assuming that this will > allow me to do a http or f

Potato boot problems

2000-05-15 Thread Christopher DeMarco
I'm using the current disk set of potato boot/root disks (build 2.2.13, 5/5/2000) and the 3-disk set of drivers (May 5 2000). I install the drivers from the disks before doing anything else, assuming that this will allow me to do a http or ftp install. This seems to go alright, but when I try to