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On Sun, 30 May 1999, INKEY$ wrote:
> Well, I decided to recompile my kernel to get rid of some superfluos stuff
> and to get PPP in. Did everything according to the howto, make config, make
> dep, make clean, make zImage... I set up lilo, rebooted, and everything
> seemed to be fine.. for about 30 seconds. "Finding Module Dependencies" pops
> up, then all these things started scrolling by, in the format of
>
> /lib/modules/2.0.32/subfolder/something.o (unidentified symbols)
>
> This continues for about (rough guess) 50 odd listings. The strange thing is
> that some of these are for things I did not compile in, like ip_masq.o which
> is by my guess is ip masquerading. (perhaps it checks all possible modules?)
If you don't use modules, remove the /lib/modules/2.0.32 directory. It
contains a lot of old modules that don't work anymore with your new
kernel.
Frank
>
> This does not seem to affect the operation of the system once booted, but is
> somewhat disconcerting. I compiled in support for modules, but compiled none
> of the options as modules (don't ask me why, i just thought it would be good
> to have, and then at the end of the config i realize i replied m for none of
> them). Could this be the cause?
>
> Thank you,
> Geoff
>
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