On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:18:23 -0500 John Nelson <developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > 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? Hi John, No idea why FC install would mess things up. In order to fix it I would try either: 1. install kernel RPMs with up2date (or apt-get, yum etc.) 2. install kernel source and compile/install option #2 is slightly more complex if you're not used to compiling kernel by hand, so you should really try option #1 first. HTH Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
