Need help with compiling my kernel

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 21 04:45:13 UTC 2004


Andrew said:

> When the system is booting, at "starting NFS4 idmapd" I get a big red [ 
> FAILED ] and something to the effect of "FATAL: module sunrpc not 
> found." I'm not sure what the module does, but when I boot the rpm 
> kernel and do lsmod, I see that sunrpc is loaded. Where do I find this 
> in the xconfig menu and what else do I need to enable?
> 
If you do not use RPC based programs and do not need portmapper support, 
you can ignore the sunrpc error message.  However, if you need to access 
NFS drives, you will need sunrpc support and must enable NFS or build it 
as a module when compiling your kernel.

James McKenzie




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