I've been working on trying to get 2.6.4 installed on my RedHat 9 (Athlon XP) system for a while now, and have had NO luck. DrOzz's tutorial helped out a LOT, but I'm still having one problem (at least, I think it's only one)

All the modules seem to compile fine, everything seems to work perfectly, until I try mkinitrd. I always come up with the same error.

code:
[root@beecee boot]# /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.4.img 2.6.4
No module /bin/true found for kernel 2.6.4



I can't seem to figure out how to include /bin/true, there doesn't seem to be an option in the configuration tool (I'm using xconfig).

Any ideas??

Did you ever solve this problem? I have the same problem with the 2.6.5 kernel.

Thanks a lot.

Unfortunately no.... I ended up breaking down and reformatting and installing Debian unstable. NO problems with Debian! :-) I highly recommend it!

If anyone finds a solution to this - please still let me know.

I am getting the same thing on RH9 when trying to upgrade to kernel 2.6.5.

this is pissing me off!

my workaround was to use the 2.4 initrd that comes with RH9, but use the 2.6.5 bzImage that I compiled. When I boot, the screen takes a dump. but once X starts up, all is well. it's a half baked solution, but is all i've got for now.

does anyone know how to solve this problem? i've seen nobody anywhere on the net that has offered an answer

What I suggest (which is what I did) was create a script with all the "insmod" or "modprobe" statements necessary to load the modules for your system when it boots and then completely remove the modules with "/bin/true" statements from modprobe.conf.

I then took that script and put it in a script called rc.modules, I believe..........or you can put it directly into the init scripts that already exist in /etc

It sounds like mkinitrd is having problems parsing your modprobe.conf file. There are several lines that look like this:

install radeon /sbin/modprobe via-agp; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install radeon; /bin/true

The /bin/true is there so it will never fail. It looks like mkinitrd is seeing this as a module to load.

ok, i looked in /etc and there is no "modprobe.conf" file. is there any way to restore it?


PS - i've successfully installed module-init-tools 3.0 following the instructions in the README file:

tar -xzf module-init-tools-3.0.tar.gz
cd module-init-tools-3.0
./configure --prefix=/
make moveold
make
make install
/generate-modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf

but you just said you successfully installed the new mod utils............why is there no modprobe.conf then?

ok, thanks. i went to modules.conf and got rid of all the /bin/true statements and mkinitrd worked after that. i can successfully boot into the 2.6.5 kernel now. thanks

Be sure to load those modules by hand (in a script if necessary) if they are necessary.

The ones I had with the /bin/true statements were not vital modules, so I just stuck em in a script.