On Monday 11 June 2007, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2007, David Baron wrote: > > On Sunday 10 June 2007, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > > > > On Sunday 10 June 2007, David Baron wrote: > > > > >Now it is time to place the module in a separate source package that > > > > > can be compiled and installed using m-a. > > > > > > > > > >The old postinst method worked on each kernel after I booted it > > > > > (yes, there are those of us playing with more than one host > > > > > kernel!). The new method, in my mind more convenient, does NOT. > > > > > Only works for the first kernel on which it is used. My old trick > > > > > of vi-ing the module and changing the > > > > >"magic" (provided that string is the same length) also did not work. > > > > > > Just make sure that the link /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build points to > > > the kernel sources of the current kernel and execute > > > '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'. This should work in any case. > > > /usr/src/linux is only a fallback if the former link was not found. > > > > It did. I needed to set /usr/src/linux anyway. > > So please could you provide some more information? That is, which > distribution are you using and to which directory /lib/modules/`uname > -r`/build points to? The logfile /var/log/vbox-install.log would also be > helpful (when compilation of vboxdrv against the current kernel fails of > course). You could send the log file via private E-mail to frank at > innotek.de.
Actually might be OK. I had moved the sources after building that kernel :-) _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
