Bug 70511

Summary:	mkinitrd-3.5.7-r2 created initrd fails to load module, missing insmod.old
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cor Cornelisse <C.A.Cornelisse>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	2004.2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cor Cornelisse 2004-11-08 14:56:33 UTC

I found this creating my initrd for the Promise SX6000 Controller, I'm running on a Vanilla 2.4.27 kernel, and a fresh Stage1 install of Gentoo 2004.2 
I just emerged the latest "mkinitrd" version 3.5.7-r2 from the portage, and created a initrd, when booting with this initrd, I get a kernel panic, since it cannot mount it's root device. Before the panic, it says "Kernel requires old insmod, but couldn't run /bin/insmod.old: No such file or directory". I searched the internet using google, which lead me to a Red Hat bug report:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80119

Quite old though, I manually patched the freshly emerged version of mkinitrd, created a new initrd, booted and all was good.

I suggest this patch gets applied to the current mkinitrd version residing in the portage.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-11 21:54:16 UTC

4.2.0.3 now in portage