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On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 02:12, Diego Calleja García wrote: > El 15 Jul 2003 16:53:12 -0700 Piet Delaney <piet@www.piet.net> escribió: > > > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 15:22, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > > I heard that if you install the new module-init-tools package in > > /sbin that you would be able to boot old kernels. Is that true? > > It works here. > i've a debian distro, i apt-get'ed module-init-tools. Man modprobe says: > > BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY > This version of insmod is for kernels 2.5.48 and above. If it > detects a kernel with support for old-style modules (for which much of > the work was done in userspace), it will attempt to run insmod.modu- > tils in its place, so it is completely transparent to the user. > > diego@estel:~$ ls -l /sbin/insmod* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5072 2003-06-15 12:27 /sbin/insmod > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 359 2003-03-06 15:50 /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95372 2003-03-06 15:50 /sbin/insmod.modutils > > > Looking at the size, insmod.modutils seems the 2.4 insmod loader. That is Debian doing things differently again. The vanilla modules-init-tools will run insmod.old: $ ls /sbin/insmod* /sbin/insmod /sbin/insmod.old /sbin/insmod.static /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean $ Anyhow, usually reading the documentation (*hint* README *hint*) should help. -- Martin Schlemmer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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