Date sent: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 01:47:23 -0500 From: Jing Su <jingsu-26n5VD7DAF2Tm46uYYfjYg at public.gmane.org> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Compiling the 2.6 kernel Send reply to: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org

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Any suggestions or readings would be of help.

I too decided to play with 2.6 for the day, though I got frustrated and stopped. Anyone know what the deal with the new modules is? Based on some browsing of newsgroups via google, it seems that a new module loader is needed? (I'm using the one shipped with RH8). Anyways, I went and got the latest/greatest non-development version of the module loader. modules.conf has been replaced with modprobe.conf, and modprobe.devfs. Haven't quite figured out these things yet.

Anyways, I've been getting module dependency errors and they refuse to load when I boot the new kernel.... still investigating it though, to figure out what's going wrong.

Cover the obvious ... Did you do a "make modules" then a "make modules_install"? The kernel I installed keeps complaining about an unrecognised block (0,0) on the boot partition, and does a kernel panic. When I load the default kernel, it does not have the problem. However, this time I am trying to do this without initrd (I compiled the kernel with initrd turned off, and do not have an initrd line in lilo.conf for that kernel).

As for initrd, I found that it's mostly used for scsi systems. Atleast it's true in my case. I needed to pack up the the scsi board module into the initrd image. After a while, I found the whole process of initrd creation to be annoying, and just compiled the scsi driver into the kernel itself, and did a regular boot without initrd.

-Jing -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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