Re: modules

[Barry Archer <barry fountain net>]

Brian,

        root# ln -s /lib/modules/2.0.35  /lib/modules/preferred

    I suspect that the idea was to use a symbolic link to be able to switch
between different kernel versions, where the directory linked to matches the
boot version.  But you have to change both the line in /etc/lilo.conf and the
symbolic link.  I just happened by accident to notice the symlink before I did
a red hat rpm kernel update, and found it was gone afterwards.  A trivial
action that I don't remember seeing in any docs yet ( not to say it's not
there - I just don't remember seeing it ).


        Barry

Brian Hand wrote:

> Hello
>
> I left a post last night about not being able to get my modules working
> with kernel 2.0.35  the error on boot that I get is when I boot up I get
>
> kernel unable to find /lib/modules/preferred/modules.dep
>
> of course it isn't going to find it!  It does not exist.  all I have in
> /lib/modules is a 2.0.35 directory and all the modules are present and
> acccounted for in that directory.  I did the following to build my kernel
>
> make xconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make zlilo
> make modules
> make modules_install
> mv vmlinuz System.map /boot
> vi lilo.conf
> lilo
> init 6
>
> am I not doing something that I should be or have forgotten to do
> something or is my procedure flawed?  Help!
>
> Thanks
> Brian
>
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