Re: Monolithic kernel again

[joy <gracecott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>  
>
>  

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