Thanks, that is the step I was looking for. It works now. I really
appreciate your help. Forgot all about depmod. Oh well, live and learn..
Thanks,
Eddie Strohmier
----- Original Message -----
From: Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Kernel Build Question...
> Hi, Eddie,
>
> I've had this problem before. You need to add a step in your sequence
> below.
>
>
> Eddie Strohmier wrote:
> >
> > I am rebuilding my kernel on a RH 6.0 2.2.5-15 system. I have 3 devices
that
> > needed adding after doing the folloing:
> >
> > backing up my old kernel
> > make mkproper
> > make config >> here I set all my options the way they should be set<<<
> > make bzImage
> > make dep
> > make clean
> > make modules
> > make modules_install
> depmod -a version-number
>
> Substitute version-number with the directory where your modules are
> installed. In your case, this directory should be
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15, so you would do 'depmod -a 2.2.5-15' after 'make
> modules_install'. When you do the depmod command, you might get some
> unresolved dependencies messages. I'm not sure what these messages
> mean. But I was at least able to boot the new kernel after running
> depmod. Good luck,
>
>
>
> Hidong
>
> >
> > I then copy my bzImage the boot directory and call it vmlinuz. I boot
lilo
> > with the image name vmlinuz and the old image vmlinuz-2.2.5-15.orig or
label
> > vmlinuz.orig. I then of course run lilo to set the new map. For some
reason
> > my
> > system is hanging on the finding module dependancies as it boots and
will
> > not continue with the boot process. So essentially I have to hit reset
or
> > power down and hit tab to boot back to my old kernel. Has any one seen
this
> > type of kernel failure before. I have gone throught this 4 times now.
> > Reading it step by step. I can not find anything I missed. Every time it
> > hangs on finding module dependancies and never actually mounts the file
> > system.
> > I have done this in the past but was upgrading a kernel version but I
have
> > never had kernel boot problems of this sort. This is a p-333 II 256meg
ram.
> > I don't think the machine type matters, I just think I missing something
> > that I can not find in the /usr/src/linux/README file and also the
> > Kernel-Howto file.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance
> >
> > Eddie Strohmier
> >
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