According to Paul Rogers: While burning my CPU.
>
> Richard,
>
> Further to your mail and previous response to me:
>
> >> This problem also occurred when I went from 2.0.34(Original install) to
> >> 2.0.35 on another machine. What am I doing wrong?? I did all the
> >> necessary makes etc while compiling the kernel.
>
> >If you did make modules make modules_install then one would think all would
> >be ok, so let me explain what happens when redhat boots.
>
>
> <SNIP>
>
> >You could also create a symlink yourself in /lib/modules with;
>
> >ln -s 2.0.36 preferred
>
> >and comment out the line in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit which deletes the symlink;
>
> >rm -f /lib/modules/preferred
>
> >Considering the rest of the script does not create any symlink like it
> >should i cant see that it could do any harm.
>
I found the problem in the script, you will have seen the mail about it, i
Cc'ed it to the list.
I dont know why the new file causes the error's, it seems i will have to
install 5.2 soon ;-)
Anyway try the old script again after deleting the ! mark as i mentioned.
Maybe Brain Scaringe can shed some light on this topic for me and others of
course.
>
>
> Attached is file rc_sysinit.old which is the script causing the problems after my
>upgrade to RH 5.1 2.0.35/2.0.36
>
> In addition to your reply I also received another reply from Bryan Scaringe which
>stated:
>
> >There were problems with the init files that shipped
> >with RedHat 5.1. Get the updated init-files RPM and
> >install it, and your problem should go away.
>
> >I forget what the RPM was called; init-scripts, or
> >something like that...
>
>
> >Bryan Scaringe
>
> rm -f /lib/modules/preferred
> if [ -n $USEMODULES ]; then
> set `cat /proc/cmdline`
> while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
> if echo $1 | grep '^BOOT_IMAGE=' > /dev/null ; then
> image=`echo $1 | awk -F= '{ print $2 }'`
> kernelfile=`/sbin/lilo -I $image`
> if [ -n "$kernelfile" ]; then
> kernelname=`echo $kernelfile | awk -F- '{ print $1 }'`
> versioninfo=`echo $kernelfile | sed "s|${kernelname}-||"`
> if [ "$kernelname" = "/boot/vmlinuz" -a \
> -d /lib/modules/$versioninfo -a \
> $versioninfo != `uname -r` ]; then
^ delete that one.
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Regards Richard.
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