Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] 2004.0 on pb 3400c

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

On 09 Apr 2004, at 17:46, Patrick Tisdale wrote:

> thanks for the info.  everything is much clearer now.
>
> see below...
>
> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 09:04, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
>> insmod ./drivers/scsi/sr_mod.ko
>> insmod ./drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.ko
>> insmod ./drivers/fs/binfmt_misc.ko
>> insmod ./drivers/fs/isofs/isofs.ko
>> insmod ./drivers/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-1.ko
>
> did this.  although the fs folder is in a parallel dir to drivers.  it
> would not load the isofs.ko module.  it said:
> insmod:  cannot insert './fs/isofs.ko':  Unknown symbol in module (-1):

The module didn't load because one of it's dependencies wasn't loaded.
Did you load the binfmt_misc thing?

try insmod ./drivers/lib/lib/zlib_inflate/zlib_inflate.ko

before the isofs thing

> so i tried mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0:
> mount:  /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is write protected, mounting read-only
> mount:  /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is write protected, mounting read-only
> mount:  Mounting /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /mnt/cdrom failed:  Invalid
> argument

this should work when you get the module loade.

> i'm assuming this fails b/c of the module that won't load, right?

yep

> cdrom0 is a symbolic link, so i tried to mount the device file that it
> points to (/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd) directly, but had the
> same result.
>
> does this kernel have scsi cd-rom support builtin?

yes

> what should i try next?

It would be nice if you could try again with that zlib_inflate.ko 
module loaded

Best regards,

Pieter Van den Abeele

> thanks,
> patrick
>
>
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