Re: kernel upgrade -Reply

[Dwight Schauer <dschauer vcsd com>]

I'm sorry. I misunderstood... :-( my fault.
One thing to check might be kernel support marked yes for module
   [*] Enable loadable module support
   [ ] Set version information on all symbols for modules
   [ ] Kernel module loader

Apart from that, what do you have compiled as modules?

Godfried Duodu wrote:

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> How do I fix my problem - the boot process getting stuck at "finding module dependencies'? Is there anything I can do differently if I decide to rebuild the kernel again?
>
> >>> Dwight Schauer <dschauer vcsd com> 07/26/99 08:26am >>>
> Did you leave the last kernel entry in lilo.conf?
> Just boot that one if you did. Or the boot disk you during the redhat install (If you made one)
>
> When changing lilo.conf, you should NEVER have it ONLY point to the kernel you just configured. At a minimum you should always keep at least an
> extra entry to the last
> kernel that you know worked. I happen to be a little more paranoid and keep all boot entries that worked, and just keep renaming the older
> entries.
>
> $ cat /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/bzImage2210-3jul99
>         label=linux
>         root=/dev/hda2
>         read-only
> image=/boot/bzImage229-14may99
>         label=linux4
>         root=/dev/hda2
>         read-only
> image=/boot/bzImage228-11may99
>         label=linux3
>         root=/dev/hda2
>         read-only
> image=/boot/bzImage227-11may99
>         label=linux2
>         root=/dev/hda2
>         read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
>         label=linux1
>         root=/dev/hda2
>         read-only
>
> Godfried Duodu wrote:
>
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> > I installed RH6.0 ver A on a 486 machine that is going to be used as a router.
> > I did  all the routines ie make xconfig, make dep, make clean, make
> >  bzImage, make modules and make modules_install and pointed lilo to the new kernel.
> > Everything was going alright until the I got stuck at 'finding modules dependencies' andd no matter what I did I could not go past that level.
> > Any help on what to do other than re-installing RH6.0?
> > mc
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