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gerryAU

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From: Australia

Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 37

[Solved] (request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c)

G`Day, I thought I would try x64. i686 works great on my machine but I can`t get x64 to boot, kernel boots then stops with

request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c

I have tried both x64 base installs of Duke & Voodoo but both fail with the same error

E6700 cpu 4GB ram gigabyte 965p-ds3p mobo (p965 chipset, jmicron sata)

my modules (from arch i686)

$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
appletalk              30892  2
ipx                    24228  2
p8022                   2048  1 ipx
psnap                   3332  2 appletalk,ipx
llc                     5908  2 p8022,psnap
p8023                   1920  1 ipx
nvidia               6828660  22
ipv6                  253248  12
coretemp                6400  0
it87                   17296  0
hwmon_vid               3072  1 it87
i2c_isa                 4224  1 it87
eeprom                  6032  0
ntfs                  219072  1
eth1394                16644  0
ppdev                   7428  0
rtc_sysfs               3840  0
lp                      9220  0
snd_seq_oss            29056  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46800  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
rtc_proc                3844  0
snd_pcm_oss            38816  0
snd_mixer_oss          14336  1 snd_pcm_oss
rtc_dev                 6792  0
snd_emu10k1           127296  1
snd_rawmidi            19232  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec         95396  1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus                2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                68484  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
sg                     26780  0
ppp_generic            23572  0
slhc                    6272  1 ppp_generic
parport_pc             35940  1
parport                31176  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
snd_seq_device          6796  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              19076  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          7816  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            3840  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               7172  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    44388  13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,s
nd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore               6496  1 snd
ohci1394               31664  0
ieee1394               84184  2 eth1394,ohci1394
rtc_cmos                7188  0
rtc_core                7684  4 rtc_sysfs,rtc_proc,rtc_dev,rtc_cmos
rtc_lib                 3456  2 rtc_sysfs,rtc_core
pcspkr                  2944  0
usbhid                 36256  0
hid                    24448  1 usbhid
ff_memless              5256  1 usbhid
i2c_i801                7952  0
i2c_core               17664  5 nvidia,it87,i2c_isa,eeprom,i2c_i801
intel_agp              21404  1
agpgart                27608  2 nvidia,intel_agp
tsdev                   6464  0
thermal                11656  0
processor              24788  1 thermal
fan                     3972  0
evdev                   8192  4
battery                 8580  0
ac                      4100  0
fuse                   39188  2
button                  6288  0
floppy                 53284  0
r8169                  25224  0
reiserfs              233216  3
sd_mod                 16640  8
sr_mod                 14372  1
cdrom                  34080  1 sr_mod
uhci_hcd               22032  0
ehci_hcd               31116  0
usbcore               111752  4 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
ata_piix               11780  6
ahci                   17668  0
ata_generic             5636  0
pata_jmicron            4736  5
libata                102164  4 ata_piix,ahci,ata_generic,pata_jmicron

my mkinitcpio.conf looks the same on both installs ;
MODULES="pata_jmicron ata_generic ahci ata_piix"
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usbinput keymap filesystems"

Possible kernel problem ? Do I need the full kernel source to recompile a new kernel  & if so is there a package of the full kernel ? Just asking because the file size of /usr/src/linux-2.6.21-ARCH is about 18MB, just headers is it?

From what I can google its sounds like a problem with ELF (sorry don`t know what it is means ) also found some old refereces to grub but I don`t have anything fancy in it just the default ARCH installed grub.conf (i686 in MBR & x64 on its boot partition)

any  tips appreciated, thanks.

Last edited by gerryAU (2007-05-27 02:12:28)

gerryAU

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From: Australia

Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] (request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c)

It was my grub after all, re-installed it to mbr , all good