On Monday 19 January 2004 07:18 pm, John Nelson wrote: > 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. This box use LILO? I ran into this with a box; the cure was getting LILO properly configured for the 2.4.22 kernel used by FC1. This was not trivial, since several LILO support files had been changed in /boot. The modules were removed by the RPM upgrade process, but LILO is still pointing to the old kernel binary. I do not remember the full sequence of steps that were required; if this box CAN use GRUB you will want to use GRUB on it; installing GRUB from scratch isn't too fun, though. To boot the the right kernel you can run mkbootdisk (that is, if the kernel isn't too large to fit on a floppy) and boot from that, or you can boot the install CD in rescue mode to get things mounted to where you can work on them. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
