Boot Errors

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:28:21PM -0500, Ed Fletcher wrote:

> The first comes very near the beginning of the boot:
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:02:0e.2
> 
> Is this something I should be concerned about or is it just showing up 
> because of the Win2K partition that shares the hard disk?

It's not related to your Windows installation, and you probably don't need
to be concerned about it.  Check lspci and see which device it is, and if
you're comfortable upgrading, try the Hoary kernel and see if it goes away.

> The other shows up when the modules are being loaded:
> Modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting hw_random 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.ko): No such 
> device
> 
> I can add hw_random to /etc/hotplug/blacklist but I'd like to be sure 
> that I don't need it.  Anyone know what it does?  Google has failed me 
> with this one.

It provides access to a hardware random number generator.  If you don't have
one, the system gathers entropy from other sources, so this is harmless.

-- 
 - mdz