On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 06:07:37PM +0900, Sean Schertell wrote: > Please help! I've gotta get some work done quickly but I seem to have > killed my yaboot and can't boot. It's on a PowerBook, so no floppy. I got > hit with the bug in module-init-tools 3.1-pre2-1 which causes this > craziness: > > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... > modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... > > (times about a hundred or so) > > This happened when I tried to install 2.6.6 so for the past few weeks I've > been typing "old" at the boot prompt and using an old 2.4 kernel.
You should just be able to upgrade module-init-tools and regenerate the initrd. > So now I installed the 2.7 kernel which has the same problem and to > make things worse, typing old now causes the 2.6.6 kernel to boot and > panic. Say your 2.4 kernel was on partition 11, path /boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc; now type 'hd:11,/boot/vmlinux-2.4.25-powerpc' at yaboot. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]