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From: joy <gracecott@sancharnet.in>
To: Tony Gogoi <tgogoi@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Cc: terry white <twhite@aniota.com>,
	linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Monolithic kernel again
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:27:34 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4142E82E.2030303@sancharnet.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.56.0409101932410.27575@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU>

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.....
>
>  
>
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
>  
>
>  
>


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-11 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-10 20:01 Monolithic kernel again Tony Gogoi
2004-09-10 20:13 ` Matt Hemingway
2004-09-10 20:28   ` Tony Gogoi
2004-09-10 20:53     ` Matt Hemingway
2004-09-10 21:31       ` terry white
2004-09-10 23:41         ` Tony Gogoi
2004-09-11 11:57           ` joy [this message]
2004-09-11 20:44             ` terry white
2004-09-11 20:58               ` Adrian C.
2004-09-11 23:38                 ` Monolithic kernel again : Fixed :-) Tony Gogoi
2004-09-12 19:39                 ` Monolithic kernel again terry white
2004-09-11 23:36             ` Tony Gogoi
2004-09-13  8:09               ` Andrew Kelly
2004-09-10 21:37 ` terry white
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-12 22:27 terry white

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