Re: ANOTHER Fedora upgrade tale of woe...
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.
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