not finding dependencies

OC_eobard · 08-29-2004, 11:09 PM

Depmod gives me this:

Quote:

Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.22/modules.dep for writing

Uname with the -a option (to list everything) gives this output:

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Linux localhost 2.4.22 #6 Tue Sep 2 17:43:01 PDT 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

No listing of either Drake or Slack there.

edit: I get the same output for uname from Slack (time stamp differs but thats all). Typing depmod from Slack gives no verbose result.

Travers · 08-30-2004, 09:30 AM

Okay, use chmod+w /lib/modules/2.4.22/modules.dep
I'm assuming that it exists and you do not have proper permissions. If it dosent' exist, just chmod /lib/modules/2.4.22/ for write access.

OC_eobard · 08-30-2004, 10:45 AM

/lib/modules/2.4.22/ does not exist in Mandrake. /lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk does but I've already got write permissions for it. Here's the output for ls -l in that directory:

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total 632
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jul 29 21:36 kernel/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 199067 Aug 29 22:00 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41593 Sep 18 2003 modules.description
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53502 Aug 29 22:00 modules.generic_string
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 443 Aug 29 22:00 modules.ieee1394map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8330 Aug 29 22:00 modules.isapnpmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Aug 29 22:00 modules.parportmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96041 Aug 29 22:00 modules.pcimap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Aug 29 22:00 modules.pnpbiosmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196837 Aug 29 22:00 modules.usbmap

The files I moved into the Slack boot directory from Mandrake (vmlinuz...mdk, initrd...mdk and system.map...mdk) also have write permissions within Slack if that's relavent.

OC_eobard · 09-02-2004, 05:17 PM

Bump. Anyone else?

OC_eobard · 09-17-2004, 06:59 PM

My file system got corrupted in Slack and since Drake never got set up I decided to give it a shot reinstalling again with Drake first then Slack. I've got Mandrake running but now I can't get Slackware off the ground. I basically did the reverse of the steps tried above but I'm getting a different kind of problem. Instead of booting the secondly installed OS but not finding the dependencies I get a system halt with the error "Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing inint= option to kernel."

I'll post my lilo.conf from the other system in a moment....

OC_eobard · 09-17-2004, 07:04 PM

Here's Lilo.conf:

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boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=788
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda7 splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda7"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda7"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="Slackware"
root=/dev/hda9
image=/boot/vmlinuz.slack
initrd=/boot/initrd.slack.img
append="root=/dev/hda9"
read-only

I copied over System.map, initrd.img and vmlinuz from the Slack partition into the Mandrake boot directory. I inserted ".slack" into the file names in order to differentiate and to avoid writing over anything. I appended lilo appropriately to account for this, although I don't know what to do about System.map because lilo gives no reference to it. Any thoughts anyone?