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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-572
2005-07-15
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Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.12
Release : 1.1398_FC4
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation, device input and output, etc.
Some users noticed that after they updated to recent kernel updates,
their systems no longer booted. If you had this problem, please check
that your /etc/modprobe.conf has entries for your disk controller(s)
If in doubt, you can run as root..
mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.bak
mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.bak
kudzu
which should regenerate the modprobe.conf file.
*note* that you need to do this _before_ installing this kernel update.
The initrd gets built based upon the contents of /etc/modprobe.conf
during the post-install of the kernel rpm.
This problem in particular affected users of a broken RPM from
livna.org for the NVidia graphics driver, but judging from feedback
in bugzilla, there may be additional causes for the damage to
/etc/modprobe.conf
Thanks,
Dave