Re: major badness with latest kernel update

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jon Burgess ([email protected]) said: 
> 
>>>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.
> 
> 
> modutils-2.4.22-9, which should show up in rawhide tomorrow-ish, just
> has the 2.5/2.6 support integrated directly into insmod/rmmod/etc.
> You shouldn't need to worry about <foo>.old.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 


Thanks for making the availability of the modutils rpm known. I am 
interested in getting the 2.5 kernel working.

Jim

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