* LILO calling modprobe? @ 2001-07-05 19:58 Stephen C Burns 2001-07-05 20:14 ` Aaron Lehmann ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Stephen C Burns @ 2001-07-05 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel Hey all, Each time I run lilo, I receive the following message in syslog: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3 This machine has no IDE devices. when I run lilo in verbose mode, I see that it is querying all possible hard disks in /dev (e.g. Caching device /dev/hda (0x0300, etc.). I am, in fact, running an older version of LILO (0.21) but upgrading when it is not necessary frightens me. I also note that calling lilo on a newer machine with newer lilo (21.4) that it does not query all devices, although that particular machine is all IDE. I realize that I can alias this block module to off in /etc/modules.conf, but I wanted to be sure that this is a cosmetic problem before I brush it off. Anyone for input? Thank you! ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 19:58 LILO calling modprobe? Stephen C Burns @ 2001-07-05 20:14 ` Aaron Lehmann 2001-07-05 20:42 ` Guest section DW 2001-07-05 20:57 ` Russell King 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Aaron Lehmann @ 2001-07-05 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Stephen C Burns; +Cc: linux-kernel On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:58:18PM -0500, Stephen C Burns wrote: > Hey all, > > Each time I run lilo, I receive the following message in syslog: > > modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3 I have the same problem. http://bugs.debian.org/83710 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 19:58 LILO calling modprobe? Stephen C Burns 2001-07-05 20:14 ` Aaron Lehmann @ 2001-07-05 20:42 ` Guest section DW 2001-07-05 21:03 ` [OT] " Aaron Lehmann 2001-07-05 20:57 ` Russell King 2 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Guest section DW @ 2001-07-05 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Stephen C Burns, linux-kernel On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:58:18PM -0500, Stephen C Burns wrote: > Each time I run lilo, I receive the following message in syslog: > > modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3 > > This machine has no IDE devices. when I run lilo in verbose mode, I see > that it is querying all possible hard disks in /dev (e.g. Caching device > /dev/hda (0x0300, etc.). I am, in fact, running an older version of > LILO (0.21) but upgrading when it is not necessary frightens me. Well, why not look at the source, then? void preload_dev_cache(void) { char tmp[10]; int i; cache_add("/dev/hda",0x300); for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) { sprintf(tmp,"/dev/hda%d",i); cache_add(tmp,0x300+i); } cache_add("/dev/hdb",0x340); for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) { sprintf(tmp,"/dev/hdb%d",i); cache_add(tmp,0x340+i); } cache_add("/dev/sda",0x800); for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) { sprintf(tmp,"/dev/sda%d",i); cache_add(tmp,0x800+i); } cache_add("/dev/sdb",0x810); for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) { sprintf(tmp,"/dev/sdb%d",i); cache_add(tmp,0x810+i); } } Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 20:42 ` Guest section DW @ 2001-07-05 21:03 ` Aaron Lehmann 2001-07-05 22:03 ` Wakko Warner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Aaron Lehmann @ 2001-07-05 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Guest section DW; +Cc: Stephen C Burns, linux-kernel, 83710 > cache_add("/dev/hda",0x300); > for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) { > sprintf(tmp,"/dev/hda%d",i); > cache_add(tmp,0x300+i); > > Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. > There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. Sure it isn't a problem, but it's really annoying if it won't need to touch hda anyway. Is there a reason that it does this? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 21:03 ` [OT] " Aaron Lehmann @ 2001-07-05 22:03 ` Wakko Warner 2001-07-05 22:14 ` Albert D. Cahalan 2001-07-05 23:01 ` Guest section DW 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Wakko Warner @ 2001-07-05 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Aaron Lehmann; +Cc: Guest section DW, Stephen C Burns, linux-kernel, 83710 > > cache_add("/dev/hda",0x300); > > for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) { > > sprintf(tmp,"/dev/hda%d",i); > > cache_add(tmp,0x300+i); > > > > Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. > > There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. > > Sure it isn't a problem, but it's really annoying if it won't need to > touch hda anyway. > > Is there a reason that it does this? I believe there is. It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h. Really annoying since there's no way (correct me if I'm wrong) to read bios from linux. If there is, lilo should do that. But since it's an old copy, this probably was fixed. I had a machine at work with both ide and scsi. ide hdd was hdc and ide cdrom was hda just to keep lilo from thinking hdc is the first bios drive which infact sda was -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 22:03 ` Wakko Warner @ 2001-07-05 22:14 ` Albert D. Cahalan 2001-07-05 23:01 ` Guest section DW 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Albert D. Cahalan @ 2001-07-05 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Wakko Warner Cc: Aaron Lehmann, Guest section DW, Stephen C Burns, linux-kernel, 83710 Wakko Warner writes: > I believe there is. It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h. Really > annoying since there's no way (correct me if I'm wrong) to read bios from > linux. If there is, lilo should do that. But since it's an old copy, this > probably was fixed. > > I had a machine at work with both ide and scsi. ide hdd was hdc and ide > cdrom was hda just to keep lilo from thinking hdc is the first bios drive > which infact sda was The easy way to handle this is to md5 checksum the disks at boot. Read the first and last track of the first and last cylinder of every BIOS drive. Then match up the disks when partition tables get scanned. The hard way involves running the BIOS in virtual-8088 mode to trap IO accesses, then mapping to drivers by IO region later. Neither way is 100% reliable, but the current guess is worse. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 22:03 ` Wakko Warner 2001-07-05 22:14 ` Albert D. Cahalan @ 2001-07-05 23:01 ` Guest section DW 2001-07-05 23:03 ` Aaron Lehmann 2001-07-06 0:14 ` Wakko Warner 1 sibling, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Guest section DW @ 2001-07-05 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Wakko Warner, Aaron Lehmann; +Cc: Stephen C Burns, linux-kernel, 83710 On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:03:31PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: > > > Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. > > > There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. > > > > Sure it isn't a problem, but it's really annoying if it won't need to > > touch hda anyway. > > > > Is there a reason that it does this? > > I believe there is. It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h. Yes. > I had a machine at work with both ide and scsi. ide hdd was hdc and ide > cdrom was hda just to keep lilo from thinking hdc is the first bios drive > which infact sda was But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5): For example, disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 would say that your SCSI disk is the first BIOS disk, and your (primary master) IDE disk is the second BIOS disk. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 23:01 ` Guest section DW @ 2001-07-05 23:03 ` Aaron Lehmann 2001-07-05 23:08 ` Guest section DW 2001-07-06 0:14 ` Wakko Warner 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Aaron Lehmann @ 2001-07-05 23:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Guest section DW; +Cc: Wakko Warner, Stephen C Burns, linux-kernel, 83710 On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:01:07AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5): It doesn't help. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 23:03 ` Aaron Lehmann @ 2001-07-05 23:08 ` Guest section DW 2001-07-05 23:29 ` Aaron Lehmann 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Guest section DW @ 2001-07-05 23:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Aaron Lehmann; +Cc: Wakko Warner, Stephen C Burns, linux-kernel, 83710 On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:03:32PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:01:07AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > > But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5): > > It doesn't help. Of course it does. (But you must distinguish people. One complains about the probing, another about the numbering. The bios keyword tells lilo about the numbering, and it works.) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 23:08 ` Guest section DW @ 2001-07-05 23:29 ` Aaron Lehmann 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Aaron Lehmann @ 2001-07-05 23:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Guest section DW; +Cc: Wakko Warner, Stephen C Burns, linux-kernel, 83710 On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:08:55AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > (But you must distinguish people. One complains about the probing, > another about the numbering. The bios keyword tells lilo about > the numbering, and it works.) Well, shouldn't lilo avoid probing if you pass bios=? Currently it doesn't. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 23:01 ` Guest section DW 2001-07-05 23:03 ` Aaron Lehmann @ 2001-07-06 0:14 ` Wakko Warner 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Wakko Warner @ 2001-07-06 0:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Guest section DW; +Cc: Aaron Lehmann, Stephen C Burns, linux-kernel > > > Is there a reason that it does this? > > > > I believe there is. It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h. > > Yes. > > > I had a machine at work with both ide and scsi. ide hdd was hdc and ide > > cdrom was hda just to keep lilo from thinking hdc is the first bios drive > > which infact sda was > > But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5): I was only explaining. I foundout about the bios keyword after searching. But I didn't have time then to do the searching and didn't care. it worked for me. I don't boot scsi drives on any of my systems that also have ide. I prefer the systems to be either, but not both (test boxes excluded =) -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: LILO calling modprobe? 2001-07-05 19:58 LILO calling modprobe? Stephen C Burns 2001-07-05 20:14 ` Aaron Lehmann 2001-07-05 20:42 ` Guest section DW @ 2001-07-05 20:57 ` Russell King 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Russell King @ 2001-07-05 20:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Stephen C Burns; +Cc: linux-kernel On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:58:18PM -0500, Stephen C Burns wrote: > modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-3 If you want to get rid of this, add: alias block-major-3 off in /etc/modules.conf -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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