On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Michal Suchanek wrote: > At home I installed Mandrake 8.1. Because I have hardware that doesnt > work fine out of the box I tried to build my own kernel. > > The problem is that installing the new kernel with different config > overwrites modules and the kernel from the distro cant load any > modules anymore. > > I'd suggest to add some suffix to the kernel version in the makefile to avoid this >problem. It can be removed by people who know what they are doing anyway. > ie the built kernel version would be something like 2.4.8-34.1mdksrc
If you do that change the version number (EXTRAVERSION) to something local to your site so make menuconfig will say something like 'Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mic This will force make install_modules to use another subdirectory for its modules.
