From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g47C44wJ016897 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 05:04:04 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g47C44eZ016896 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 2002 05:04:04 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from hell (buserror-extern.convergence.de [212.84.236.66]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g47C3xwJ016893 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 05:04:00 -0700 Received: from js by hell with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1753iO-0001Wr-00; Tue, 07 May 2002 14:05:08 +0200 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:05:08 +0200 From: Johannes Stezenbach To: Robert Rusek Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: depmod help ! Message-ID: <20020507120507.GA5859@convergence.de> Mail-Followup-To: Johannes Stezenbach , Robert Rusek , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com References: <001501c1f57c$f2188e90$6601a8c0@delllaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001501c1f57c$f2188e90$6601a8c0@delllaptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:09:11PM -0700, Robert Rusek wrote: > When a depmod is performed I get the following message: > > depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/2.4.17/modules.dep > depmod: cannot read ELF header from > /lib/modules/2.4.17/modules.generic_string > depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.17/modules.ieee1394map is not an ELF file > depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.17/modules.isapnpmap is not an ELF file > depmod: cannot read ELF header from > /lib/modules/2.4.17/modules.parportmap > depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.17/modules.pcimap is not an ELF file > depmod: cannot read ELF header from > /lib/modules/2.4.17/modules.pnpbiosmap > depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.17/modules.usbmap is not an ELF file depmod bug, you get this if you've compiled your kernel with module support but actually havent't installed any modules. Create an empty /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/ directory to make depmod happy. Regards, Johannes