Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:55:43 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.61 (Yes, there are still Alpha users out there. :-) ) |
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On Wed, 2003-02-19 13:00:39 -0500, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.3.96.1030219123109.10611A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-02-17 10:39:38 -0500, Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu> > > wrote in message <Pine.GSO.4.51.0302171039160.13696@mail2.sas.upenn.edu>: > > > What version of modutils was installed? > > > > For recent 2.5.x kernels, you don't any longer need modutils. There was > > a major rewrite of all module related code which requires new tools. > > These are called "module-init-tools", my distribution has got a package > > for it (with the same name). If you cannot get that brand new software > > from your distributor, look at > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/people/rusty/modules/ . > > Be aware that for Redhat and SuSE distributions (and mandrake??) "make > install" will fail because mkinitrd doesn't know about the new modules > format. > > So you can give up using modules for anything you want to use to boot,
Which is what I prefer - I personally don't like initrd and I don't use it.
MfG, JBG
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