On Sunday 09 September 2001 01:48, you wrote:
> I'm hoping that someone can help me here....
>
> I'm running Mandrake 8.0, and when I ran MandrakeUpdate this morning, I
> noticed that there was a new kernel upgrade from my existing 2.4.3-20mdk to
> 2.4.7-12.3mdk.  I selected the kernel, header, source, and doc .rpm files
> and let it do its thing.
>
> I now have a semi-crippled system. :-/  Modules don't seem to work anymore,
> so it can't find things like my sound card and ethernet card.  When running
> depmod, I get an error message saying that
> /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/modules.dep can't be opened for writing - which
> makes sense considering it isn't there anymore.... :-)  What I want to know
> is WHY does it want the old directory instead of the new one?  For that
> matter, a "uname -r" command returns the old version number instead of the
> new one.  Does anyone know what I'm missing, to get this thing back on its
> feet again?
>
> I did fix the broken symlinks in the /boot directory (which broke after
> running the upgrade), except for the initrd.img link, which is still
> pointing to a non-existant file.  I can't run a mkinitrd command, because
> doing so gets me a message saying that the kernel doesn't know about the
> loop device (presumably since I can't load any modules until depmod knows
> where to look).
>
> Any assistance would be *greatly* appreciated. :-)
>
>                     --Dave

Did you use mandrakeupdate to upgrade your kernel?

I can't believe it! with all that talk about not doing it..

sk

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