From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:03:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [piet@sgi.com: Re: kernel make install - why don't we make it easy like on ia32?] Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 00:18:18 -0800, Piet/Pete Delaney wrote: >On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:51:32PM -0800, Piet/Pete Delaney wrote: >> How do I build: >> >> /boot/module-info-${KERNELRELEASE} >> /boot/kernel.h-${KERNELRELEASE} >> /boot/initrd-${KERNELRELEASE} >> >> In upgrading from RedHat ia64 2.4.9-18 to 2.4.17 and 2.4.18 may require changes in these files. >> I thought linux/arch/i386/boot/Makefile would have been a resonable place to have found out how >> i32 does it but it's not there. >> >> I had problems last time I tried to run 2.4.17 on my 2.4.7-10 Red Hat 7.2 i386 systems. >> I was wondering of the /boot/module-info file had to be updated or that the stuff in >> /lib/modules that 'Make modules-install' sets up might need to be tweaked. > >The module problem I'm getting in trying to boot a generic 2.4.17 kernel is with /lib/ext3.0. >It's getting a lot of undefined symbols like: > > getblk_Rsmp_0fdb96c8 > journal_destroy_Rsmp_e6169b31 > register_filesystem_Rsmp_462b6e36 > __wait_on_buffer_Rsmp_e7187873 > generic_read_dir_Rsmp_... > journal_try_start_Rsmp_... > journal_check_available_features_Rsmp_... > >It fails in /bin/insmod in mounting the /proc filesystem. > >Then it fails to mount the (ext3) root filesystem. > >The last time I had this on a ia32 laptop I thought the >problem was with the root being a ext3 filesystem but the >ext3 filesystem being a loadable module. So I updated the >kernel .config file to make ext3 a part of the kernel instead >of a loadable module. I re-installed the modules just to be >safe and the kernel continued to get the same error. The only >thing I didn't do is to do a make mrproper. I'll try that this time. http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-8