--- Manikandan P <manikandanp@email.masconit.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.18-14 to > 2.5.70. the following steps i did. > > 1.after choosing the options i gave make bzImage and > it went fine. > > 2.make modules...it deselected unnecessary modules > and this also went fine. > > 3.then i gave "make modules_install" .i got lot of > errors saying > depmod:warning "unresolved symbol" blah blah Module support has changed in 2.5. (For one thing, modules now have a '.ko' extension instead of '.o'). Older depmod will not work for you. You need the newer, 2.5 specific, modutils. Pick up the 'module-init-tools' package from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/. > b) my system being RH8.0 it requires initrd and how > do i get the initrd file working' mkinitrd assumes modules have a '.o' extension. Changing it to look for '.ko' should help. BTW, RedHat does not *require* initrd. The kernel can be compiled with all drivers and filesystems needed at boot time. > was anybody successful in doing this upgrade ? You want to move to an experimental kernel. So it's more of an experiment than upgrade :) -Ravi. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
