I got the old kernel removed just fine. Thanks.
More on the "modprobe: modprobe can't locate module block-major-135" problem: I have noticed that it's not just block-major-135 but a whole list of block-major-XXX. I am unable to read all the numbers because they go by so quickly. Is there some sort of boot log I can refer to so that I can read the errors at a speed at which my eyes can focus. I have also noticed that they happen right after the "Checking for new Hardware" section of the boot. So I am wondering if FC1 is just not happy about not finding any new hardware :) I have tried out my printer, CD-RW, and Zip drive and everything works just fine in FC1 once it boots all the way. I am just very curious about the errors.
Thanks
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 10:15, AuntieParticle wrote:
I have just upgraded from RH9 to Fedora Core 1 using the very helpful HowTo here:
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~vschmidt/notes/redhat2fedora/index.htm
It all went very well but each time I boot FC1 I see the following error:
modprobe: modprobe can't locate module block-major-135
Then it proceeds through the rest of the boot okay.
I looked up block 135 in devices.txt and it seems to be for SCSI disk devices.... of which I have none on my system. Is there a way to get rid of this error?
My devices.txt doesn't show block-major-135, but in /dev it is listed as /dev/sdig (I'm really running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS at the moment) and that is odd, but not fatal. You can suppress the message by adding the line to /etc/modules.conf:
alias block-major-135 off
Also, since upgrading to FC1 I now have 2 kernels that show up in Grub, the one I had with RH9 and the new one that FC1 upgrade installed. FC1 boots to the new one by default of course and that is just fine. What I'd like to know is how can I, or even should I, remove the old kernel?
Sure you can remove the older kernel. But you need to be specific when doing so. If the kernel you need to remove is kernel-2.4.20-20.9, then you can remove it by running:
# rpm -e kernel-2.4.20-20.9
Don't just say "rpm -e kernel". Normally it will tell you that kernel represents multiple packages and exit doing nothing, but if you have only one kernel in the rpm database, this might remove it.
-- Chris Kloiber Red Hat, Inc.
