Hi, After installing 0.9.13 version of module-init-tools and recompiling whole thing make modules_install did succeed with no errors. I did make install and it copied the compiled image, System.map file to /boot/ partition and also updated the grub.conf file (new initrd.img is created too) . So far so good. Some of the docs are suggesting that I create /sys and edit /etc/rc.sysinit file to mount /sys. Is it really needed ? Will it create any problem if I want to boot my old kernel (2.4.x-y). If there is a problem in booting to my newly compiled 2.6 kernel I want to be able to go back to 2.4.x-y without any problems. Thanks, Sarath On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:47:21 +0530, ashwin.shirvanthe@xxxxxxxxx <ashwin.shirvanthe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sarath Kamisetty wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >This is exactly what I am doing. I messed up the sequence in e-mail :( > >make modules_install is dumping lot of depmod errors. > > > > > >This step is failing - I get the error message saying "No module > >aic7xxx found for kernel 2.6.10-saratk" (saratk is my EXTRAVERSION in > >Makefile) > > > You have 2 problems. > 1. compiling the modules > 2. compiling the kernel > > Regarding the modules. > This is the root of the problem for not having a successfull > make modules_install > Do you have the module-init-tools to compile the modules. > The modules are treated in a different manner in 2.6 series > Get module-init-tools for the 2.6 kernel and install > them. > The insmod depmod modrobe + .... of 2.4 series donot work > in 2.6 series. > _Read_ README before that. > > >My /etc/fstab looks like this: > > > >LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > >LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > >none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > >none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > >none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > >/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 > >/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 > >noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > > > > >and my grub.conf is like this: > > > >default=0 > >timeout=10 > >splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > >title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ > > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img > >title Red Hat Linux (2.6.10-saratk) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-saratk ro root=LABEL=/ > > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img > > > > > > > Regarding the kernel : > * Have you taken ext3 support in the kernel. > By default it is taken as a module. > * Compile the kernel and copy the bzImage to desired location > Have the following in the grub.conf file > > title Red Hat Linux (2.6.10-saratk) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-saratk ro root=/LABEL=/ > > I presume you are copying the bzImage to /boot partition (as mentioned in > the previous mail) and not the / partition > kernel /XXXXXXXXXXXX > where XXXXXXXXXXXX is the path + file name of the zipped kernel binary > if you are copying bzImage in / please put /vmlinuz-.... > Leave the initrd for the time being , > once the modules are compiled you can create it. > > * If this doesnt help > Run the mount command to find out which parition the LABEL / corresponds to > you should get the output as > > ......... > /dev/XXX on / type ext3 (rw) [/] > ....... > ....... > > My intension is to find out on which device is / located. > once you know the device /dev/XXX > > title Red Hat Linux (2.6.10-saratk) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-saratk ro root=/dev/XXX > > Regards, > Ashwin > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
