Hi there,
here I am, still trying to fine-tune my PC and understand it a bit
further...
Now, I've been puzzled by some messages I find in the boot sequence
and by a particular message I find in the syslog:
When I boot the system, as soon as the klogd is started here comes the
following messages:
Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: klogd 1.3-3#31, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: Cannot find map file.
Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: Loaded 25 symbols from 4 modules.
OK... I'm puzzled by the 2nd one... what does he mean by 'Cannot find
map file'? I guess he means that he can't find the /boot/map file, but
it's there (together with a boot.0300 and a boot.0302 - btw, what are
those files anyway?) Is it somehow serious or dangerous for the system?
A bit later, when setting up the serial ports, it states:
Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial
options enabled
Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
Aug 18 16:45:27 groo kernel: ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
OK... whay ttyS00 and not ttyS0?? At home it happens just the same way,
but there I have RedHat 5.2 installed and because of that I can't seem
to find a way to get rid of the old /dev/cua0 mouse device, because if I
link /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS00 can't find the latter and if I link it to
/dev/ttyS0 it won't find a mouse... ;-/
And then, by the end of the boot-up procedure, I get this one (just like
that, doubled):
Aug 18 16:45:32 groo /usr/sbin/gpm[152]: Skipping a data packet (?)
Aug 18 16:45:32 groo /usr/sbin/gpm[152]: Skipping a data packet (?)
What's that all about? ;-?
Last, in my syslog I will find, from time to time:
(...) kernel: floppy0: perpendicular mode not supported by this FDC.
What is 'perpendicular mode'? Do the massage mean that my FDC is wrongly
configured for Linux or what? ;-?
Thanks for your attention!!!
Guilherme Zahn
