[ale] Need suggestions in installing kernel 2.6.22.1 on openSUSE10.2

[Greg Freemyer]

On 8/7/07, Scully Wu <hxsrmeng at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kernel version: 2.6.22.1
> No patches are chosen.
>
> 1) "make defconfig"  to generate .config
>
> 2) "make menuconfig" to load .config. Actually, I didn't set up anything in
> the menuconfig. Even I chose to load .config, when exited, it didn't ask me
> whether I want to save.
>
> 3) "make" to build.
>    Sometimes it showed messages like this:
> "
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: In function 'cpufreq_add_dev':
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:829: warning: ignoring return value of
> 'sysfs_create_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> "
>
> 4) "sudo make modules_install"
> it showed
> "
> INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko
> if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map
>  2.6.22.1; fi
> "
>
> 5)"sudo make install"
> it showed
> "
> sh
> /home/hxsrmeng/linux/linux-2.6.22.1/arch/i386/boot/install.sh
> 2.6.22.1 arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot"
> Root device:    /dev/hda1 (mounted on / as ext3)
> Module list:    processor thermal piix fan jbd ext3 edd (xennet xenblk)
>
> Kernel image:   /boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.22.1
> Initrd image:   /boot/initrd-2.6.22.1
> Shared libs:    lib/ld-2.5.so lib/libacl.so.1.1.0 lib/libattr.so.1.1.0
> lib/libblkid.so.1.0 lib/libc- 2.5.so lib/libcom_err.so.2.1 lib/libdl-2.5.so
> lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 lib/libhistory.so.5.1 lib/libncurses.so.5.5
> lib/libpthread-2.5.so lib/libreadline.so.5.1 lib/librt- 2.5.so
> lib/libutil-2.5.so lib/libuuid.so.1.2 lib/libvolume_id.so.0.73.0
> lib/libnss_files-2.5.so lib/libnss_files.so.2 lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>  Cannot determine dependencies of module processor. Is modules.dep up to
> date?
> Cannot determine dependencies of module thermal. Is modules.dep up to date?
> Cannot determine dependencies of module piix. Is modules.dep up to date?
> Cannot determine dependencies of module fan. Is modules.dep up to date?
> Cannot determine dependencies of module jbd. Is modules.dep up to date?
> Cannot determine dependencies of module ext3. Is modules.dep up to date?
> Cannot determine dependencies of module edd. Is modules.dep up to date?
> Driver modules: none
> Filesystem modules:
> WARNING: Couldn't open directory
> /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.hU9187/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.22.1: No
> such file or directory
> FATAL: Could not open
> /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.hU9187/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.22.1/modules.dep.temp
> for writing: No such file or directory
> Including:      initramfs fsck.ext3
> Bootsplash:     SuSE (800x600)
> 12120 blocks
> "
> I know it's failed. but I don't know how to fix it. Thanks.

Do you specifically need a vanilla kernel, or will a SUSE factory kernel work?

http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/i586/kernel-default-2.6.22.1-14.i586.rpm

Greg
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