Re: SuSE boot problems

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> Al == Al Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk> writes:

Al> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Keith Powell wrote:

>> I now have version 6.3 up and running correctly. It boots each
>> time and ends in the KDE interface. I had to install it with
>> YAST, as YAST2 still didn't work. One point, in the Console Log
>> screen during LOG-ON, I get the message that Modprobe can't
>> locate module char-major-15. A couple of questions please,
>> before I shut up and get to grips with using the program. Is
>> this error message important? If it is what do I do about it? I
>> can't find any mention of char-major-15 in the manual, or in
>> the FAQ's.

Al> Wa-hey! Glad to see you got it up and running. As for the
Al> other problem, what do you have in /etc/conf.modules? Are you
Al> sure it was char-major-15?

According to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.10/include/linux/major.h,
major 15 is either CDU31A_CDROM_MAJOR (unlikely, AFAIK CR-ROMs are
block devices), or JOYSTICK_MAJOR. I deduce that you didn't configure
a joystick. Ignorable, unless you want to attach a joystick. I don't
do Windows[tm] or action games, you'll have to ask somebody else about
that ;-)

You can shut up the kernel whinging by adding

alias char-major-15 off

to /etc/conf.modules (varies by distro; look for comments in that file
indicating it is generated by a config program, that usually tells you
how to update it, also try `man 5 conf.modules').

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