ANOTHER Fedora upgrade tale of woe...

[John T Nelson]

Don't think this is the problem. THere is only one kernel on this 
machine... the FC1 kernel. Problem is that the FC1 upgrade didn't install 
all the module support needed. I can boot into FC1 but get lots of errors 
complaining about missing modules.

Any chance I can correct this by hand since the installer disk does not 
correct this condition (the installer created the problem in the fist 
place)?

-- John



On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Wade Chandler wrote:

> Lamar Owen wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 19 January 2004 07:18 pm, John Nelson wrote:
> > 
> >>I tried to upgrade RH 8 on another of my development machines and, while
> >>the upgrade claimed it was successful, the upgrade process royally
> >>messed up in setting up the modules for the kernel. The modules.info
> >>file is missing from /boot. Also the /lib/modules/e2.4.20-20....
> >>directory that contains those modules..... wasn't even created so when
> >>Fedora boots up, I get a cascade of missing modules errors.
> > 
> > 
> > This box use LILO?  I ran into this with a box; the cure was getting LILO 
> > properly configured for the 2.4.22 kernel used by FC1.  This was not trivial, 
> > since several LILO support files had been changed in /boot.  The modules were 
> > removed by the RPM upgrade process, but LILO is still pointing to the old 
> > kernel binary.  I do not remember the full sequence of steps that were 
> > required; if this box CAN use GRUB you will want to use GRUB on it; 
> > installing GRUB from scratch isn't too fun, though.  To boot the the right 
> > kernel you can run mkbootdisk (that is, if the kernel isn't too large to fit 
> > on a floppy) and boot from that, or you can boot the install CD in rescue 
> > mode to get things mounted to where you can work on them.
> 
> Another thing you can do is put the install disk on and choose to 
> upgrade your current system and simply walk through the install again. 
> It shouldn't overwrite everything you've already done, but you can 
> choose to install Grub to your mbr at that point....without the 
> configuration.
> 
> Wade
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