Hi folks, I am having some problems woth recompiling and booting with the kernel (2.4.20-8). I did the following added a few tried and tested files changed the top level makefile EXTRAVERSION to "test" from "-8". make menuconfig dep bzImage modules and modules_install. The compilation proceeds fine (though make modules takes a _long_ time.) I copied the bzImage to /boot and edited lilo.conf and ran lilo. Iam now getting the following error. /lib/ext.o: kernel-module version mismatch. This module was compiled for 2.4.20-8 while this version is 2.4.20-test. (not exact words) ditto for /lib/jbd.o The kernel then panics and says pass init= option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no files as described in /lib Should I not have changed the top level Makefile.or is it something in "make modules" i missed. I went through the README in /linux and found nothing that I missed. The only thing I could not understand in README were the following lines. (under INSTALLING the kernel ) "Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be." I _am_ working in /usr/src/linux. Can someone tell what the above means and what I am doing wrong. Also, do I need /lib/modules/version directory to boot even if I compiled the lernel to use modules? Thanks a lot in advance. Vijay -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
