Re: Quite off topic, but I'm running out of options...

Richard Fish (rjf@estinc.com)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:51:03 -0700

storner@image.dk wrote:
>
> In <36AF7260.D959827F@njmc.com> John LeMay <jlemay@njmc.com> writes:
>
> >After installing 2.2.0 (final), I receive the following messege upon
> >reboot:
>
> >Kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
> >request_module[binfmt-464c]: fork failed, errorno=11
>
> errno=8 means "exec format error". binfmt-464c is ELF format ("EL" =
> 0x46 0x4C).
>
> Sounds like you built your kernel without ELF support, and your
> modprobe is an ELF binary.

This is getting to be a very common posting/answer sequence here.

Does anybody else think it would be a good idea to have a warning
message for menuconfig or xconfig that appears when ext2fs or elf binary
support are modularized that says something like:

WARNING: Most systems will not boot if ELF binary/EXT2 filesystem
support is not in the kernel.

These two in particular seem to be the most common user goofs that show
up like kernel problems.

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