Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:36:30 +0200 | From | Diego Calleja García <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 and module loading |
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On 15 Jun 2003 10:07:01 +0200 Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> For RedHat users, there's another pitfall in "/etc/rc.sysinit". During > startup, the script sets up the binary used to dynamically load modules > stored at "/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe". The initscript looks for > "/proc/ksyms" (if my memory servers me well), but since it doesn't exist > in 2.5 kernels, the binary used is "/sbin/true" instead. > > This, eventually, will keep modules from working. RedHat users will have > to patch the "/etc/rc.sysinit" script to set "/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe" > to "/sbin/modprobe", even when "/proc/ksyms" doesn't exist. > > I can't attach a patch. All my RH9 boxes are manually patched and can't > get access to the original "/etc/rc.sysinit" script :-(
Dave, i think it'd be good to have this in your post-halloween document?
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