On 31 Jul 2003, Féliciano Matias wrote:
Le jeu 31/07/2003 à 12:57, Robert P. J. Day a écrit :
> based on my reading, the new kernel prefers to read from the
> file /etc/modprobe.conf, rather than the older /etc/modules.conf.
>
> to help in the migration, there is the utility
> "generate-modprobe.conf", but in this situation, it doesn't work --
> it fails complaining of a missing "modprobe.old".
>
> i'm suspecting that generate-modprobe.conf was written with the
> assumption that one would have upgraded separately to the newer
> version of modutils, which was backwards compatible and, IIRC,
> moved the older versions of the module commands to their
> corresponding ".old" names.
>
> this is, i'm guessing, what generate-modprobe.conf is looking
> for, but severn, since it comes with the newer version of
> modutils already, has no such ".old" backups. hence the failure.
>
> thoughts?
>
Try to copy modprobe from RH9 to modprobe.old.
i suspect that would work fine, but it doesn't help someone
testing a severn box who doesn't have access to any RH 9
rpms.
is there a usable way to run this under the circumstances,
or should i bugzilla this?
rday