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From: Rahul Karnik <deathdruid@gmail.com>
To: "Johnson, Richard" <rjohnson@analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Migration to linux-2.6.8 from linux-2.4.26
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:36:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b64f7f04092410367c6328e0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0409241258180.24517@quark.analogic.com>

> > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:10:23 -0400 (EDT), Johnson, Richard
> I don't know how it 'knew' that I had proviously copied
> all the modutil utilities to *.old before installing the
> new ones. In any event, it would certainly never find
> them at "./filename.old". They would have to be un
> /sbin or /usr/sbin or /usr/local/something, never in
> the current directory.

Aha, there's the problem. module-init-tools does a copy of the old
tools itself and delegates to the old tools for 2.4 kernels. So to fix
your problem, install modutils and the install module-init-tools over
it. See the README file that comes with module-init-tools for further
info.

Thanks,
Rahul

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-24 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-24 15:10 Migration to linux-2.6.8 from linux-2.4.26 Johnson, Richard
2004-09-24 16:30 ` Rahul Karnik
2004-09-24 17:25   ` Johnson, Richard
2004-09-24 17:36     ` Rahul Karnik [this message]

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