no bootloader found, Cannot configure kernel
james T
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Dec 9 09:05:06 2003
Copy the one from:
/boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-2g
I think that should be it, but I'm not sure what all those 'aic7xxx'
messages are, you might want to check in your /boot folder and see if
there is a matching initrd-2.4.22-2g.img since mkinitrd failed.
-james
PS (I'm running YDL on an old power computing too!)
On Dec 9, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Shawn Protsman wrote:
> 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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