> My machine runs 2.0.36 quite happily and my older 166 runs 2.2.3 ok too,
> but my main box (see deatils below) hates any 2.2 kernel (have tried up to
> 2.2.7 under Debian 2.1, Redhat 5.2 and Redhat 6.0)
>
> while attemting to boot with a 2.2 kernel, which compiled without error,
> it gets just further than the IDE Hard disk inormation and displays this:
>
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
> request_module[binfmt-464c]: fork failed, errno 11
>
> and loops this message indefinatley.
> This happens even when using no modules or support for them compiled in.
errno 8 is ENOEXEC, Exec format error.
I don't know what executable file format binfmt-464c denotes, what
does "file /sbin/modprobe" say on the troubled machine?
To avoid infinite regress, it is imperative that the exec format used by
/sbin/modprobe be built _into_ the kernel, i.e. not itself be a module.
/ Mikael
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