[ale] Kernel-rebuild loose ends

Fulton Green ale at FultonGreen.com
Thu Jun 8 16:51:57 EDT 2000


On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 05:14:58PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> A clarification point. 
> 
> The modules.dep file will be created on the first boot if it does not
> already exist. Don't ln -s one from a previous modules directory. It may
> cause ulcers, headaches and general intestinal problems as modules change
> slightly between issues. 
> 
> JimK
> 
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> > The System.map file should appear in your /usr/src/linux build directory
> > after the kernel image has been produced. Copy it to /boot/System.map-2.2.16 .
> > The /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script is looking for a .rhkmvtag file. You may need
> > to comment out this section of the script unless you can figure out how to
> > emulate it.  You may also need to generate the modules.dep file for the
> > modules subdir by doing a
> >     depmod -aei -F /boot/System.map-2.2.16 2.2.16
> > 
> > Unless someone knows otherwise, the module-info file appears to be a Red Hat-
> > specific file that doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the vanilla
> > kernel source. Just create a softlink of /boot/modules-conf-2.2.16 to point
> > to the 2.2.14 one and be done w/it.

Darnit, that's create a softlink of /boot/modules-info-2.2.16 . Besides,
Red Hat uses conf.modules . :)
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