Hi, Warren,
Thanks for the reply. There's one thing I don't quite understand, see
below:
Warren Doney wrote:
>
> Hidong Kim wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Axalon,
> >
> > I tried the 'depmod -a', but the 2.2.13-7mdk smp kernel is still hanging
> > during boot at "Finding module dependencies". Should it be 'depmod -a
> > 2.2.13-7mdk' or 'depmod -a 2.2.13'? Thanks,
> >
>
> move your old modules from (top level) /lib/modules to a new folder
> /lib/oldmodules (I just used KFM)
> or whatever before you make modules-->lnstall-->depmod etc. Before you
> reboot, put a working version of older kernel moudules in /lib/modules
> so you can boot with an older kernel if anything goes wrong.
Can't I just boot off of an older kernel on a boot floppy in case of
emergency? If I put working versions of older kernel modules in
/lib/modules, won't that overwrite the modules that were just created?
Thanks,
Hidong
I.E. I made
> sure I had a bootdisk+modules for 2.2.13-7 before I rebooted my newly
> compiled 2.2.13-22. I don't think it would work with 2 lots of the same
> version e.g. 13-22 + 13-22 (havent tried it though). For me, depmod
> still
> spits out unresolved stuff, but I can boot o.k. off my new kernel.....
> I think I hosed out some suff from the src tree when I did a make
> mrproper or a make clean somewhere, Wish I'd moved the RPM from /tmp....
>
> Warren.
