On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:00:52PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I recompiled a 2.0.36 kernel, of course I had to use gcc 2.72. I copied > > System.map all over known creation, made modules_install did depmod and ... > > just an idea: did you a "make dep clean" before "make install etc." when > making the kernel?
Yep. > and why depmod makes such weird things ... > run "rm /lib/modules/2.0.36/modules.dep" - possibly it's write-protected > or such thing. I did that and it puts back the weird one. Correction: it IS stamped 5 hours older than whenever it is created (boot). I am at GMT -500 but this seems backward for me... What's up??? I *have* to mark it read-only (immutable) to avoid the errors! > your question, why all the geniuses are silent: we don't have your system > in front of us. give a root login to somebody you trust and your problem > will probably be fixed within minutes. we (mostly) are no clairvoyants. I don't expect people to fix my problem, but something as simple as matching modules and a kernel compiled at the same time from the same source...? Don't tell me no one has ever done THAT... Anyways, I did get much better response today (Hmm, monday...) and I thank you all. -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.xoom.com/JMarkevich "[In 'Doctor' mode], I spent a good ten minutes telling Emacs what I thought of it. (The response was, 'Perhaps you could try to be less abusive.')" (By Matt Welsh)