Re: 2.4.21 doesn't boot: /bin/insmod.old: file not found

[Keith Owens]

On 22 Jun 2003 19:07:58 +0200, 
Ronald Bultje <[e-mail]> wrote:
>After that, I installed the newest modutils (2.4.25) and
>module-init-tools (tried both 0.9.12 and 0.9.13-pre), created symlinks
>in /bin for all *mod* tools pointing to /sbin/$file, and I still cannot
>get 2.4.21 to get further than this error (obviously, /bin/insmod.old
>_is there_, I'm not that stupid. ;) ). I use initrd with filesystem
>modules and some more in it, so obviously it fails with a panic saying
>that /sbin/init wasn't found (no single HD mounted).

Did you copy /bin/insmod.old to the initrd that you are booting from?
Is /bin/insmod.old a static binary?