On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:18, John Nelson wrote: > All, > > I tried to upgrade RH 8 on another of my development machines and, while > the upgrade claimed it was successful, the upgrade process royally > messed up in setting up the modules for the kernel. The modules.info > file is missing from /boot. Also the /lib/modules/e2.4.20-20.... > directory that contains those modules..... wasn't even created so when > Fedora boots up, I get a cascade of missing modules errors. 2.4.20-20 is the RHL8 kernel, so Fedora wouldn't create it as it knows nothing about it. > I have no idea why the modules files are missing, but more importantly > how can I fix this problem? Reinstalling from the distribution CD just > skips over everything and doesn't fix the problem. I imagine I'll have > to patch all of this by hand but don't really know where to start.... > any ideas? It sounds like something went wrong during the kernel upgrade. You could just grab the latest update, and rpm -i that, and it should sort everything out. (Afterwards, you can rpm -qa | grep kernel and remove all the other non-working ones). Dave
