You are very welcome Paul.

Good luck in the future!

cheers,
Mark

On 4/26/05, Paul Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark
> 
> You are king
> 
> I cant remember NOT running && make modules_install
> 
> but it seemed to do the job
> 
> thanks a million gazillion
> 
> :)
> 
> 
> On 4/26/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 4/26/05, Paul Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > #1) Does it exist?
> > >
> > > slocate modules.dep
> > >
> > > gentoo root # slocate modules.dep
> > > /usr/share/man/man5/modules.dep/5/gz
> > >
> > > #2) Can you create it?
> > >
> > > gentoo root # depmod -a slocate modules.dep
> > > WARNING: couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3: no
> > > such file or directory
> > > FATAL: could not open  /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/modules.dep.temp
> > > for writing: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > I uess thats bad huh ?
> >
> > Very bad, but my command was inaccurate according to this email.
> > Please try once more:
> >
> > depmod -a
> >
> > and then do
> >
> > ls /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3. slocate wouldn't have worked unless
> > you did another updatedb. ls will always work
> >
> > One more command you should post back is just
> >
> > ls -la /lib/modules
> >
> > I think that you missed a step when you built your kernel
> >
> > 1) make menuconfig
> >
> > to set up the kernel and create .config
> >
> > 2) make
> >
> > to build the kernel
> >
> > 3) make modules_install
> >
> > to install the modules. This creates the directory
> > /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3 for this kernel. I think you did not do
> > this step or the directory would be there.
> >
> > 4) mount boot;cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/XXX; vi grub.conf/etc.
> >
> > There is one other possibilitiy. Please do
> >
> > ls -al /usr/src
> >
> > If you linux link is set incorrectly I don't know what happens in this case.
> >
> > This problem should be very easy to figure out and fix.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> >
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