Re: kernel upgrade -Reply -Reply

[Dwight Schauer <dschauer vcsd com>]

Godfried Duodu wrote:

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> I do not remember doing that so I will have to start all again on that slow machine!
>

You won't have to do a "make dep" or "make clean" the second time around.
That will speed things up a lot.

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> >>> Dwight Schauer <dschauer vcsd com> 07/26/99 09:41am >>>
> 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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