Re: modules problems with 2.6.0 (module-init-tools-0.9.12)

From: Diego Calleja García (diegocg@teleline.es)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 19:12:10 EST


El 15 Jul 2003 16:53:12 -0700 Piet Delaney <piet@www.piet.net> escribió:

> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 15:22, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>
> I heard that if you install the new module-init-tools package in
> /sbin that you would be able to boot old kernels. Is that true?

It works here.
i've a debian distro, i apt-get'ed module-init-tools. Man modprobe says:

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY
       This version of insmod is for kernels 2.5.48 and above. If it
       detects a kernel with support for old-style modules (for which much of
       the work was done in userspace), it will attempt to run insmod.modu-
       tils in its place, so it is completely transparent to the user.

diego@estel:~$ ls -l /sbin/insmod*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5072 2003-06-15 12:27 /sbin/insmod
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 359 2003-03-06 15:50 /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95372 2003-03-06 15:50 /sbin/insmod.modutils

Looking at the size, insmod.modutils seems the 2.4 insmod loader.
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