Re: major badness with latest kernel update

> 1. the kernel fails to boot, copmplaining about no /bin/insmod.old,
> copying this file from /sbin makes no difference

This is normally caused by having the latest 2.5 compatible modutils stuff
installed. This replaces insmod with a 2.5 only version which falls back to
calling insmod.old if it is running on a 2.4 kernel. Unfortunaltey the mkinitrd
script which builds the initrd to load drivers for your boot devices only
includes insmod and not insmod.old in the initrd image.

The fix is to add a couple of lines to the mkinitrd script to include the
insmod.old in the initrd file and then rebuild the initrd or just erase and
re-install the kernel. I don't have a patch handy, but it fairly easy to modify
the mkinitrd script.

     Jon




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