[NTLUG:Discuss] The compiled kernels which refused to live.

[Scott Denlinger]

Thanks to everyone who offered advice about my kernel compiling woes. I 
have tried the manual procedure using "make", as suggested by some 
posters, as well as letting Debian's make-kpkg handle the process. Both 
procedures have *not* resulted in a new bootable kernel. The new kernel 
inevitably doesn't load the parts of my kernel which probe for my 3Com 
cards, parallel ports, plug-n-pray cards, or AGP card. I've issued 
depmod -a after rebooting, and rebooted again. I should emphasis that I 
have definitely issued the "make modules modules_install" command when I 
recompiled manually, and I've also issued the "make-kpkg modules_image" 
command when I've used make-kpkg. I even downloaded a new kernel source 
package and recreated a new .config file, but it has all been for naught.

For now I will just not use my tape drive, read more about modules, and 
try again some time after I have a better understanding of exactly how 
modules work in the kernel. (Not a bad idea in any case, success or no).

Thanks again to everyone who offered advice.

Scott Denlinger