Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:47:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Stephan <support@bbi.co.bw>
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Subject: Re: Fw: ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally!
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Stephan wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> System Configuration...
> LSI Megaraid 320-1 SCSI Card
> Redhat ES 3 , build 3
> Boot loader : lilo
>
> I'm running Redhat ES 3 release and after much struggle finally  succeeded in 
> compiling the kernel successfully.... I hope :). I'm getting the following 
> problems after I've rebooted the system on the newly installed kernel.
>
> Now I've done some reading on google about this and the only thing I could 
> find was that I should try to change (append="root=LABEL=/") to the actual 
> device name where root can be found. I got the same affect.....
>
> Any ideas would be apreciated.
>
> <------------------------------error----------------------------------->
> ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally!
> Loading sd_mod.ko module
> insmod QM_MODULES:
>

Your insmod may need updating (the one used by initrd).
As you can see, it was unable to load even the first
module necessary to eventually access your root file-system.

The new kernel has QUERY_MODULES removed (don't ask why, normally
there would be some kind of compatibility-overlap). So, your
older `insmod` or `insmod.static` is trying to use the old-
method of loading modules.

[SNIPPED...]

You may not be able to recover easily. I found that I needed
to rebuild the kernel with the necessary SCSI drivers in the
kernel. This would allow me to boot and mount a root file-system.
Save the previous kernel ".config" file. You must rebuild
with the 'loop' device in the kernel as well (or else you
can't make a new initrd RAM disk).

Then you can install the new modutils package.

Then you can change back to the previous configuration with
`make clean ; make oldconfig`....etc. Rebuild the kernel,
install and boot happy.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.8 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips).
             Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

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