Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264991AbUJEUe5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:34:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265051AbUJEUe5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:34:57 -0400 Received: from spirit.analogic.com ([208.224.221.4]:24585 "EHLO spirit.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264991AbUJEUey (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:34:54 -0400 From: "Johnson, Richard" Reply-To: "Johnson, Richard" To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Arjan van de Ven , "Johnson, Richard" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:38:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.5-1.358 and Fedora In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1097004565.9975.25.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1491 Lines: 39 On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > If Richard overwrote his modules anyway he must have hacked the Makefile > > himself to deliberately cause this, at which point... well saw wind > > harvest storm ;) > > > While I lack specific Fedora knowledge and thus can't provide exact > details for it I'd say it should still be pretty simple to recover. On > Slackware I'd simply boot a kernel from the install CD and tell it to > mount the installed system on my HD, then you'll have a running system and > can easily clean out the broken modules etc and install the original ones > from your CD and be right back where you started in 5 min. Surely > something similar is possible with Fedora, reinstalling from scratch (as > he said he did) seems like massive overkill to me. > > > -- > Jesper Juhl > Yeh? There is no place to get replacement modules from. They are somewhere on some RPM on one of the CDs, with no way to know. It's not like you could tar everything from the current root file-system. They don't exist in the root file-system, which is a RAM disk. Richard B. Johnson Project Engineer Analogic Corporation Penguin : Linux version 2.2.15 on an i586 machine (330.14 BogoMips). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/