Remastering Problems - missing files on boot [SOLVED]

[snowshaker]

I remastered a 4.3.1 boot CD with the specific options for my desktop and had no problems. I've also remastered 4.11 w/o problems for it and another desktop.

Now I have tried this several times on my laptop, and I get CD's that will boot and load the pup-save file properly from HD or USB pen drive. However, if I try to run it in ram, i.e., puppy pfix=ram, I get these errors.

WARNING: could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/initrd/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko ': No such file or director

FATAL: could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/initrd/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko ': No such file or directory

And the resulting x win screen is all garbled, but working from memory, I was able to blindly poke menu<setup>xvesa with my mouse and and get xwin to display properly and could look around.

When I went to find usbcore.ko and usbhid.ko, I found instead the compressed usbcore.ko.gz and usbhid.ko.gz in the respective folders. Yes, the files are missing, but they are there when I boot and load up a pup-save file.

Ideas?

[PANZERKOPF]

This is a bug. Read about it:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=180

[snowshaker]

Thanks, Panzerkopf.

So how do I use that rc.sysint download you posted in that other thread? I uncompress it and stick it somewhere in the pup-431.sfs before it gets iso'ed?

[snowshaker]

FYI - Believe I figured out how to use Panzerkopf's file. I made another remaster, this time using the modded rc.sysinit file. I no longer get the two error messages, but the two files were still left unzipped. New error message about /sys not being mounted.

The new rc.sysinit was there though after the boot, under /etc/rc.d

edit: Fonebone on my part. I was previously using 4.11 and thought 4.3 was the latest and final. Silly me. Will go to 4.2 instead. . Thanks.

[snowshaker]

I went back to 4.3 and used Dougals PupRemaster script to get my remaster.

Two things needed for 4.3 if you use it.

ReMaster solved.

[moB]

I remastered a 4.3.1 boot CD with the specific options for my desktop and had no problems. I've also remastered 4.11 w/o problems for it and another desktop.

Now I have tried this several times on my laptop, and I get CD's that will boot and load the pup-save file properly from HD or USB pen drive. However, if I try to run it in ram, i.e., puppy pfix=ram, I get these errors.

WARNING: could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/initrd/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko ': No such file or director

FATAL: could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.30.5/initrd/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko ': No such file or directory

And the resulting x win screen is all garbled, but working from memory, I was able to blindly poke menu<setup>xvesa with my mouse and and get xwin to display properly and could look around.

When I went to find usbcore.ko and usbhid.ko, I found instead the compressed usbcore.ko.gz and usbhid.ko.gz in the respective folders. Yes, the files are missing, but they are there when I boot and load up a pup-save file.

Ideas?

I am having a similar error message on NOP-431r2 with Guest Additions in VirtualBox 3.1.

Everything seems OK -- except that msWin is blocking my USB devices while the Sun thing runs: (The USB drives drop off the map -- "My Computer" -- after a failed attempt to find "drivers for unknown usb drives" -- they work until VBox tries to link to them.) Vbox then complains that the devices are busy, and can't access them.

So I think I have usb support.

My error revolves around missing usbhid.ko.gz, the compressed files, which *are* installed in the lib already.

What is trying to install them again? Is this really a fatal error?
Can I do something about it?

Help, please. My noob head is spinning looking for answers

[moB]

I think I might have something of the same problem described here, but would like to know how to deal with it without recompiling... yeah

My error, as noted above, is similar. The problem seems to also be a kernel bug, as reported by:

Author: Christian Krause <chkr@plauener.de>
Date: Mon Oct 17 14:30:48 2005 -0700

After the kernel loads USB high-speed drivers it makes another attempt...resulting in a warning and then "Fatal error" output.

It seems to have been dealt with as part of the kernel 2.6 revision:

Author: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi>
Date: Wed Mar 5 00:39:58 2008 +0200

Now, is there a manual or some noob-friendly info I can be aimed at to shapen my blunt head

I would like to resolve this issue ASAP. Thanks for reading this. I hope to fix the "problem" without bothering Linus, himself

[moB]

I made a tiny patch for the /etc/profile to suppress this error output, as the consensus is that it is harmless.

Hope important errors are dealt with before applying this!

Look here:
....http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=120

Hope it helps you

Have fun!


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