Regarding Recent Kernel Update on FC4

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Posted by Thomas Chung on 2005-07-15

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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