Hello Linux users,

I am installing Linux RH 9.0 on a compaq presario 2500. I am facing a usual problem while
Startup, but I am unable to resolve it.

When installing linux I had installed with a LINUX NOFIREWIRE option. When starting up it hangs up
While trying to bring up the 1394 driver.
This seems to be a common problem ,and I have the google'd and found the solution too. One needs to
Edit the modules.conf file,deleting the 1394 firewire line and switch off kudzu. But I am not
Sure how to do it. Your help would be appreciated.
FYI, I am unable to use the INTERACTIVE STARTUP,inspite of my repeatedly pressing
"I" it continues to ignore me.

How do you get hold of MODULES.CONF file,before even booting with linux.

Thank you.

Regards,
Sushanth

Boot with a floppy or use the rescue option if your cdrom has it available. Mount the partition with /etc then edit the modules.conf file. Then unmount the partition and reboot into single user mode then run:

/sbin/chkconfig kudzu --del

Now you should reboot and try a normal bootup.

Good luck to you.

Thank you!

I tried what you had suggested,but I am facing a different problem this time.

I used the Rescue option. When in shell, I tried to switch off kudzu
using
chkconfig kudzu off, it gave me the following error.
"Error reading information on service kudzu"

And there seems to be no IEEE 1394 line in modules.conf file,
infact there is only one line.

Please suggest.

Thank you
sushanth

the one line means that there is another file that adds modules(this is common now days from what i've seen) and modules.conf is usually for what you manually add. I use slack alot and is uses a file called /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and Gentoo uses /etc/init.d/modules.autoload or some such.

being redhat it will not use the rc.modules slack's init is completely different. i would do a search for *module* in the /etc dir then examine the results.

to delete the kudzu service you have to boot in single user mode not with the rescue. rescue was for editting files. check lilo docs or http://www.google.com/linux/ for the correct procedure to boot into single user mode. i use GRUB and don't remember what you did for that just remember you could.

Good luck

Thank you!
I've finally managed to get RH working.

While shutting down,it gets stuck at a point where it tries to stop pcmcia ports. And it hangs at that point.
Any clues?

Regards,
Sushanth

view /etc/inittab , and look for the following

Explanation of the run levels :

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#

id:5:initdefault: # This is your boot up run level
-----
You can then goto /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ (in this case)
do a " ls -l *pcmcia* "
to see if you try to load anything at boot up, if so you could try deleting it or moving it out of the bootup directory to see if that solves your problem, and also del/mov the file from /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/ (reboot//shutdown dir).

if you do delete this file and you need it back you can always copy the one from /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ over or create a new Symlink.