On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 20:25, Mark wrote: > Thanks for the reply > > > It appears you upgraded from an FC1 or earlier install and > > did not do a clean install. > No, actually this is a simple and clean install off an FC1 CD. All the > things I wrote down I did at the first boot after taking out the install CD > and rebooting. > > > > > The modules for the 2.4 and earlier kernels used modules.conf but the > > 2.6 kernel uses modprobe.conf. > > > > I don't really know why you would have needed to put that line in > > modules.conf since with FC2 it ignores that file and uses > This is for FC1 - I never got to successfully install FC2 on any machine I > tried it on - but that's a different story. Or rather 1000 different stories > ;) > So this was an FC1 install. How did the file modprobe.conf come to be? (not critical since that kernel will never use it) When you put the alias line in modules.conf that was the proper place for it. Kudzu should have put it there for you but who knows. Anyway, putting the line in there was the correct thing to do, and now that it is working you should be OK. > > AFAIK only the > > modprobe.conf file. Maybe you are booting to a 2.4 kernel which would > > explain the use of modules.conf. > > > > What kernel are you actually running ( uname -r )? and what version of > > fedora? > > The kernel is the original kernel from the FC1 CD (2.4.22-1???). Sorry, I > already have the server shut down and disconnected. > > No problem. Knowing this is FC1 helps identify where the config should be.
