[ale] Odd Boot Message

[nlucent at mindspring.com (Nick Lucent)]

add
char-major-4 off
to /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules
I imagine you probably just included serial support rather then making it
a module

Nick

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Clay Lawrence wrote:

> I've upgraded my kernel this AM from 2.2.0pre7 to 2.2.6. All appears to
> be working fine except for a message during boot, "modprobe: can't
> locate module char-major-4". Running cat /proc/devices indicates this is
> /dev/ttyS. My modem is on ttyS0 however and working fine. Make modules
> and modules_install and depmod -a haven't changed a thing. It seems that
> the system is trying to install a module for a driver built into the
> kernel that's already running. Any ideas what's generating this message?
> 
> TIA
> Clay
>