On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 21:35, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > I just updated my phoebe system to the latest rawhide kernel (and sted > > deps including SysVinit) and kablooey > > > > 1. the kernel fails to boot, copmplaining about no /bin/insmod.old, > > copying this file from /sbin makes no difference > > You installed module-init-tools for 2.5 kernels without patching > various things to use it the way it comes set up... that will cause > this. > > > 2. my old kernel is barely functioning as the kernel upgrade wipes out > > my modules directory (which was a custom one), so no net acces, sound > > etc > > In general, you don't want to 'upgrade' the kernel, you just want > to 'install' a new one. (i.e., use 'rpm -i', not 'rpm -U'); this > allows the old kernel to still be there to boot from. > > Bill >
didnt realise this (usually I compile rather than use rpms) - wierdly the kernel,sytem.map and initrd were still there, just not the modules. also I am using the 1963 kernel which works with an updated modutils However I have had two kernel oops this is /var/log/messages for one Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000011b Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: printing eip: Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: c01c7b6f Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: *pde = 0cbfb067 Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: *pte = 00000000 Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: Oops: 0000 Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: ide-cd cdrom mousedev input cs4232 ad1848 uart401 sound soundcore lp parport autofs 8139too mii iptable_filter ip_tables loop lvm-mod ext3 jbd Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c01c7b6f>] Not tainted Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: EFLAGS: 00010213 Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: EIP is at sock_poll [kernel] 0xf (2.4.20-1.1963) Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: eax: 00000113 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: c4ad5460 Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: esi: c4ad5460 edi: 00000019 ebp: 02000000 esp: ccbbdf20 Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Apr 3 11:00:14 redtux kernel: Process X (pid: 983, stackpage=ccbbd000) Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: Stack: c0146a95 c4ad5460 00000000 ccbbc000 00000145 ccbbc000 7fffffff 00000000 Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: 00000000 0000001b 00000000 cf654000 00000000 00000020 ce59cf60 00000000 Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: c0146e0b 00000100 ccbbdf90 ccbbdf8c 0000011f 00000008 0000011f c0107f1c Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: Call Trace: [<c0146a95>] do_select [kernel] 0x215 (0xccbbdf20)) Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: [<c0146e0b>] sys_select [kernel] 0x33b (0xccbbdf60)) Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: [<c0107f1c>] restore_sigcontext [kernel] 0x12c (0xccbbdf7c)) Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: [<c0108c63>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xccbbdfc0)) Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: Apr 3 11:00:15 redtux kernel: Code: 8b 48 08 ff 74 24 08 50 52 ff 51 1c 83 c4 0c c3 90 8b 54 24 -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
