Re: Trouble with kernel 2.4.18-18.7.x

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:34:38 -0500 (EST)


On 10 Dec 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> So it looks like its ok. Do file the kmod: failed to exec report in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla however. Regardless of it not being
> a problem in your case it does want fixing

It appears that recent RH build initrd files w/o all of the stuff in
modules.conf. Perhaps only the first SCSI adaptor, perhaps just ignoring
the ones which don't match the build hardware. I suspect the latter, since
even using --with= in a manual mkinitrd failed (silently) to include the
modules. I can't tell you how much that sucks if you build kernels for
multiple machines on a compile server.

Also, I installed 2.4.18-18.8.0 and it put a bunch of overlong label=
statements in lilo.conf, then ran lilo and didn't check the status. Since
it had deleted the old kernel that left a totally unbootable system. Guess
RH really likes grub and only tests upgrades and such with that.

I will report this later tonight when I'm willing to take the time to
prepare a proper bug report.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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