Re: Kernel build failure

[Bob Chiodini <chiodr kscems ksc nasa gov>]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 11:37, David Rigler wrote:
> Hello
> 
> i used yum to download the kernel source which is 
> linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl. i then copied config-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl from
> /boot to /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config. Ran 'make oldconfig', 'make 
> bzImage' ... etc BUT it does not produce a working kernel. During boot
> 'jbd' and 'ext3' modules complain about wrong version. The're for 
> ....2149.nptl not the new ...2149.nptlcustom
> 
> The one possible strange thing is that 'make modules_install' ends
> like this
> 
> mkdir -p pcmcia; \
> find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{}\
> pcmcia
> if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 
> 2.4.22-1.2149.nptlcustom; fi
> [root TESTBOX linux-2.4]#
> 
> as if that last line wasnt executed ?? and the script bombed ??
> 
> Any ideas whats going on ??
> 

David,

Possibly the initrd is not being built.  Did you run mkinitrd after
building the new kernel?  Something like:

mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.img \
2.4.22-1.2149.nptlcustom

Bob...
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