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Re: [Xen-devel] xen 2.0 testing on amd64(32bit mode) runaway modprobe on

To: Robin van Leeuwen <robin.van.leeuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen 2.0 testing on amd64(32bit mode) runaway modprobe on lvm disk
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:01:12 +1000
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On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:38 +0200, Robin van Leeuwen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get Xen 2.0 testing running on my amd64 (32 bit mode, debian
> 3.1 i386 sarge installed)
> and i'm stuck on using a lvm partition as hda1. I'm getting the following
> message during boot of domU:
> 
> --------
>     ...
>     kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
>     EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
>     VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
>     Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
>     request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c

This is trying to exec /sbin/init (a 32-bit binary), but your kernel
doesn't handle 32-bit binaries.  It tries to modprobe binftm-464c, but
modprobe is a 32-bit binary...

Now, this is a guess: did you turn CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION off?

Rusty.
-- 
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