Re: Boot failure after install kernel-image-2.4.20-686-smp

[Kent West]

Dave De Graff wrote:

I tried to install kernel-image-2.4.20-686-smp, following the prompts to
"add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinux stanza of
/etc/lilo.conf", and the installation seemed to go fine until I rebooted the
machine.
During boot, the screen hung with a continuous rapid scrolling of the
following lines:
---------
insmod: insmod: insmod net-pf-1 failed
insmod: insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.20-686-smp/kernel/net/unix/unix.o: No such
file or directory
---------
When I rebooted with old kernel, I checked and found that the file listed
above is there - in the path listed above. All users have read permissions,
so that should not be an issue.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave De Graff



 

Are your partitions ext3 perchance? I had a similar problem, and my new 
kernel wasn't ext3 aware and so couldn't read the files off the ext3 
partitions. I booted off an old kernel, changed /etc/fstab to ext2 
entries and then was able to boot off my new kernel, at which time I 
fixed the problem and then returned to ext3 format.

Kent



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