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Hello!
I am running Slackware Linux 11.0 with kernel test26.s. I have installed fuse-2.6.3-i486 and ntfs-3g-1.0-i486. I load the fuse module at boot, via initrd. I generated the initrd.gz file by:
mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.18 -m fuse
and it actually loads the older fuse module. So whenever I try to mount my ntfs partition, I get the infamous warning:
defficient FUSE module detected
. How could I teach initrd to load the newer module-i.e. the one that I currently manually load by going to /lib/modules/2.6.18/kernel/fs/fuse and issuing "insmod fuse.ko"?
Currently my practice is to rmmod fuse, and then go to /lib/modules/2.6.18/kernel/fs/fuse and run "insmod fuse.ko". Then: mount -t ntfs-3g -o umask=022 /dev/hda1 /WinC, and there were no warnings, so everything is fine. However I wish I could load the correct fuse module at boot, via initrd, because I want to mount my ntfs partition at bootup. I hope there is some way to achieve it.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Regards,
Martin
the mkinitrd command copies the module from the installed tree. You can unzip the initrd and replace the module inside with the correct one and then rezip.
Thank you very much for your reply.
So I gunzipped the initrd.gz, and the result was a file that I could not open with a text editor?
Then I checked the initrd-tree in /boot and I saw that the correct module was there. So I rebooted and everything was ok. I have no idea why so far the old module was loaded? Probably because I experimented with rmmod-ding and insmod-ding the needed module?
Anyway, everything is ok now, although I have no clear idea what actually healed it.
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