no bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel
Shawn Protsman
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Dec 9 08:53:02 2003
Hi James,
Thanks for the information. In looking at the new kernel files I do
not see the "vmlinux" kernel needed to copy to the OS 9 System Folder.
Any ideas on where it may have gone?
[sprotsman@pyro 2.4.22-2g]$ pwd
/lib/modules/2.4.22-2g
[sprotsman@pyro 2.4.22-2g]$ ls -l
total 208
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Dec 9 08:09 build ->
../../../usr/src/linux-2.4.22-2g
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Dec 9 08:09 kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27628 Dec 9 08:09 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Dec 9 08:09
modules.generic_string
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 443 Dec 9 08:09
modules.ieee1394map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81 Dec 9 08:09
modules.isapnpmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Dec 9 08:09
modules.parportmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22541 Dec 9 08:09 modules.pcimap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Dec 9 08:09
modules.pnpbiosmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125209 Dec 9 08:09 modules.usbmap
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 08:09 pcmcia
On Tuesday, Dec 9, 2003, at 09:09 US/Central, james T wrote:
> old world macs using bootx don't get configured automatically by yum,
> and that is what the message is telling you. You need to copy the new
> kernel over to the mac boot side and put it in the System Folder/Linux
> Kernels folder, then select it with bootX and save the prefs.
>
> -james
>
> On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:59 AM, Shawn Protsman wrote:
>
>> I finally got Yellow Dog 3.0 installed on my PowerCenter Pro 240 and
>> immediately ran "yum update". It ran through it's routine and
>> everything appeared to going quite well. Toward the end, however, I
>> noticed the following:
>>
>> <snip>
>> Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader
>> No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing.
>> Installed: kernel.ppc kernel-smp.ppc
>> <snip>
>>
>> Wuz up?
>>
>> I then added the following lines to my yum.conf:
>>
>> [updates301]
>> name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 updates
>> baseurl=ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0.1/update/
>> ~
>> ~
>> ~
>> ~
>> "/etc/yum.conf" 19L, 577C written
>>
>> Then I ran "upate" again:
>>
>> [root@pyro sprotsman]# yum update
>> Gathering package information from servers
>> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
>> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
>> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 updates
>> Finding updated packages
>> Downloading needed headers
>> getting /var/cache/yum/updates301/headers/kernel-0-2.4.22-2g.ppc.hdr
>> getting /var/cache/yum/updates301/headers/mol-0-0.9.69-1a.ppc.hdr
>> getting
>> /var/cache/yum/updates301/headers/kernel-smp-0-2.4.22-2g.ppc.hdr
>> getting
>> /var/cache/yum/updates301/headers/mol-kmods-0-0.9.69-
>> 3.2.4.22.2g.ppc.hdr
>> getting
>> /var/cache/yum/updates301/headers/kernel-source-0-2.4.22-2g.ppc.hdr
>> getting
>> /var/cache/yum/base/headers/cups-drivers-pnm2ppa-0-1.9-
>> 1.20020617.6.ppc.hdr
>> getting
>> /var/cache/yum/updates301/headers/kernel-doc-0-2.4.22-2g.ppc.hdr
>> getting
>> /var/cache/yum/updates301/headers/kernel-ans-0-2.4.22-2d.ppc.hdr
>> getting
>> /var/cache/yum/updates301/headers/kernel-BOOT-0-2.4.22-2g.ppc.hdr
>> getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/timeconfig-0-3.2.9-1.ppc.hdr
>> getting
>> /var/cache/yum/base/headers/cups-drivers-hpijs-0-1.9-
>> 1.20020617.6.ppc.hdr
>> getting
>> /var/cache/yum/base/headers/cups-drivers-0-1.9-1.20020617.6.ppc.hdr
>> Resolving dependencies
>> Dependencies resolved
>> I will do the following:
>> [install: kernel.ppc]
>> [install: kernel-smp.ppc]
>> [update: mol.ppc]
>> [update: mol-kmods.ppc]
>> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>> Getting kernel-2.4.22-2g.ppc.rpm
>> Getting mol-0.9.69-1a.ppc.rpm
>> Getting kernel-smp-2.4.22-2g.ppc.rpm
>> Getting mol-kmods-0.9.69-3.2.4.22.2g.ppc.rpm
>> Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit
>> kernel 100 % done
>> No module aic7xxx found for kernel 2.4.22-2g, aborting.
>> mkinitrd failed
>> error: execution of %post scriptlet from kernel-2.4.22-2g failed,
>> exit status 1
>> kernel-smp 100 % done
>> No module aic7xxx found for kernel 2.4.22-2gsmp, aborting.
>> mkinitrd failed
>> error: execution of %post scriptlet from kernel-smp-2.4.22-2g failed,
>> exit status 1
>> mol-kmods 100 % done
>> mol 100 % done
>> Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader
>> No bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel, continuing.
>> Installed: kernel.ppc kernel-smp.ppc
>> Updated: mol.ppc mol-kmods.ppc
>> Transaction(s) Complete
>>
>> [root@pyro sprotsman]# uname -a
>> Linux pyro 2.4.23-pre5-ben0 #1 SMP Thu Oct 23 09:38:45 EST 2003 ppc
>> ppc ppc GNU/Linux
>>
>> [root@pyro sprotsman]# cat /etc/issue
>> Yellow Dog Linux release 3.0 (Sirius)
>> Kernel \r on an \m
>>
>> Any ideas you have will be helpful. I'm not sure what the aic7xxx is
>> referring to.
>>
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