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From: joy <gracecott@sancharnet.in>
Subject: Re: Monolithic kernel again
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:27:34 +0530
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To: Tony Gogoi <tgogoi@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Cc: terry white <twhite@aniota.com>, linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>

Tony Gogoi wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I tried what u guys suggested.
>
>Instead of using "make install" script to do all the new kernel
>installation, I copied ~mydir/arc/i386/boot/bzimage /boot/vmlinuz, copied
>~mydir/System.map to /boot (or made a soft link to /boot/System.map).
>
>When I boot however, it goes upto "initalizing swap space [OK] and then
>then says: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/mykernel-version.....
>
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why don't you just do a make modules_install ?  maybe it just needs the 
presence of such a file
regardless of wether your kernel is modular or not.... atleast, if 
nothing else , to ensure that there are no module
dependencies.....

>But why does a monolithic kernel try to "open" a "modules" related file? I
>guess I need to play around with the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and remove the
>lines related to "probing"... I did try a bit of that too earlier but only
>made things worse.
>
>I never had these problems with compiling modular kernels.
>
>regards,
>  
>
Joy.M.Monteiro

>tony
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