Re: Linux boot messages ?
James Mastros (root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 18:13:31 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Dominique LARCHEY-WENDLING wrote (reformatted):
> Feb 11 11:20:38 michelange kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
> Feb 11 11:20:39 michelange kernel: Loaded 4428 symbols from /boot/System.map.
> Feb 11 11:20:39 michelange kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.1.76.
> Feb 11 11:20:39 michelange kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem
> Feb 11 11:20:39 michelange kernel: Error adding kernel module table entry.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]
> How can the kernel load symbols from /boot/System.map
> before mounting the root fs ? Has this something to
> do with lilo ? How to handle this in case you boot
> multiple kernels ?
No <G>. These messages aren't realy from the kernel, but rather from klogd
-- the kernel logging daemon. Klogd outputs it's own startup messages using
the "kernel" facility, rather then the more correct "daemon" facility. It
outputs it's startup messages, then the kernel's, resulting in an odd
ordering. Note that you should probably update your klogd -- it shouldn't
be trying to read the module symbol table from /dev/kmem, but rather from
/proc/ksyms.
> What do the two following error messages mean ?(they do
> not appear in dmesg !)
Klogd dosn't know about your kernel version, so it can't find the module
symbol table within the kernel memory image.
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