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

[Greg Edwards]

Scott,

Did you run a "make clean" before anything else?  If not try that.


Scott Denlinger wrote:

> 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


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Greg Edwards
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