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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