Re: modutils for both redhat kernels and 2.5.x

Stephen Rothwell (sfr@canb.auug.org.au)
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:55:32 +1100


Hi,

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:22:22 -0500 "sean darcy" <seandarcy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK.OK So there's no way to boot both.
>
> FWIW, modutils-2.4.21-4 works fine with built 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-rc3 kernels.
> While modprobe -c does give errors, all the rh scripts seem to work fine.
>
> AND, rh's position on all this:
>
> "You need *entirely different* modutils, not just a new modutils. We
> probably
> won't be looking into this until the new 2.5 module loader is actually
> finished" Bugzilla 78508
>
> So if you want to try 2.5 kernels, make your own 2.4.x, you can't use the rh
> kernels.

Rusty has available a source RPM just for this situation.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/modutils-2.4.21-4.src.rpm

Download this, build the rpm and install it and you will have both the new
and old available to you ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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