[Gllug] Compiling a Kernel

[Thom May]

* Jackson, Harry (HJackson at colt-telecom.com) wrote :
> Replying to my own posts. This is scary.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jackson, Harry 
> > 
> > Unable to read /lib/modules/2.4.18/modules.deb
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Kernel Panic
> > Unable to ????? device 803
> 
> On further investigation I noticed that I may have needed to do a 
> 
> "depmod - a"
> 
> I have no idea if this is correct and if I am running kernel 2.4.16 and do
> it, how will this build the modules.dep file in the  /lib/modules/
> directory. Do I have to say "depmod - a [target_directory]" or something
> else to that affect. 
> 
That looks suspiciously like a typo :)
If you're on debian, kernel-package is your friend.
make-kpkg --config=menuconfig --us --uc kernel-image as root, then dpkg -i
the resulting kernel-image....deb
Cheers,
-Thom

> Harry
> 
> 
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