Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:34:41 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: modules problems with 2.6.0 (module-init-tools-0.9.12) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> |
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> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 17:12, Diego Calleja García wrote: >> El 15 Jul 2003 16:53:12 -0700 Piet Delaney <piet@www.piet.net> escribió: >> >> > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 15:22, Randy.Dunlap wrote: >> > >> > I heard that if you install the new module-init-tools package in /sbin >> that you would be able to boot old kernels. Is that true? >> >> It works here. >> i've a debian distro, i apt-get'ed module-init-tools. Man modprobe says:
I don't use the debian or RH packages. I just download and follow the instructions in the nice README file. I get insmod, insmod.old, depmod, depmod.old, etc.
>> BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY >> This version of insmod is for kernels 2.5.48 and above. If >> it detects a kernel with support for old-style modules (for which >> much of the work was done in userspace), it will attempt to run >> insmod.modu- tils in its place, so it is completely transparent to >> the user. >> >> diego@estel:~$ ls -l /sbin/insmod* >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5072 2003-06-15 12:27 /sbin/insmod >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 359 2003-03-06 15:50 >> /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95372 >> 2003-03-06 15:50 /sbin/insmod.modutils > > Funny, I don't see insmod.modutils installed in /usr/local/sbin: > > ls -l /usr/local/sbin/insmod* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28834 Jul 9 14:36 > /usr/local/sbin/insmod > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 461564 Jul 9 14:36 > /usr/local/sbin/insmod.static > > I also didn't find insmod.modutils in the module-init-tools-0.9.12 src: > [root@www src]# find module-init-tools-0.9.12 -name "*insmod*" -print > module-init-tools-0.9.12/doc/insmod.sgml > module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod.c > module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod.8 > module-init-tools-0.9.12/.deps/insmod.Po > module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod.o > module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod > module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod.static > [root@www src]# > >> >> >> Looking at the size, insmod.modutils seems the 2.4 insmod loader. > I think I missed something.
I don't think that I have that one either. Could be a result of using one of the packages instead of building it from source.
~Randy
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