Hi Ron et al,
For a kernel-source, you can just go on the Mandriva urpmi repos and
under the main repo should be the kernel-source matching your kernel
(uname -r). But that's for a Mandriva kernel.
Paul
Something to be careful of (at least this was still true the last time I tried
it, which was some months ago): kernel-source is only available from the
Mandriva repositories for the latest released kernel. It won't do anything
clever like get the source that matches the kernel you're running.
Thanks for all the info - I got the sources (which match the version of
my kernel); configured, compiled and installed the custom kernel into
/boot, edited /etc/lilo.conf and ran lilo, made a back up of
/usr/lib/modules<version> and did a make install_modules. Now when I
boot the custom kernel, I get magic problems like:
"ext3: version magic '2.6.12-12mdksmp SMP 686 gcc-4.0' should be
'2.6-12-12mdkcustom 686 gcc-4.0'
insmod: error inserting '/lib/ext3.ko': errno=8"
Now what I'm thinking is that when I did a 'make install_modules' in
/usr/src/linux this installed the modules into
/usr/lib/modules2.6-12-12mdkcustom' but the boot process is picking them
from '/lib'. I don't really want to change anything in /lib - after all
this is 'custom' kernel. How can I fix this? Have I missed something?
Is this above 'newbie' level- should I post to the expert list?
Thanks,
David.
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