kernel upgrade problems

[Patrick Fleming EA]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Craig S. wrote:

> ok. I dnloaded kernel 2.4.18 and moved the tarball to /usr/src and
> unpacked it (after saving my old /linux dir) I copied in the original
> .config file into /usr/src/linux
> 
> Next I did a make mrproper to use the .config file
> 
> then I did a make menuconfig and looked over the kernel settings.
> Everything looked good so I exited and saved the settings.
> 
> Next make dep and make clean and then make bzImage.
> 
> now for the good part. I ran make modules to install my kernel modules.

make modules
make modules_install



> 
> Those steps are in the slackware linux essentials book that came with my
> slackware 7.1 distro.
> 
> Now I departed from the book a little because I wanted to save the
> original 2.2.16 kernel in case of problems.
> 
> the book says to do the following:
> mv /vmlinuz /vmlinuz.old
> cat arch/i386/boot/bzImage > /vmlinuz
> mv /boot/System.map /boot/System.map.old
> cp System.map /boot/System.map
> 
> 
> What I did:
> cat arch/i386/boot/bzImage > /2.4.18
> mv /boot/System.map /boot/System.map.old
> cp System.map /boot/System.map
> 
> Next I added the 2.4.18 image to lilo.conf
> 
> I ran /sbin/lilo
> 
> everything looked good to this point so I rebooted and chose the 2.4.18
> kernel to boot.
> 
> Now is when things get interesting. When the kernel was loading it
> appeared that all the modules that were trying to load at startup were
> broken.
> 
> When I ran modprobe I got the following error:
> 
> can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18/modules.dep (no such
> file or directory).
> 
> Of course all my modules are busted so doing much of anything is pretty
> much out of the question since most drivers I run as modules.
> 
> When I read the modules howto it says that when running make modules
> that a directory called /usr/src/linux/modules is created and the kernel
> modules are placed in it. This directory is not present and doesn't show
> up when I run make modules in /usr/src/linux.
> 
> Does anyone have a workaround for this? I have not been able to locate a
> fix.
> 
> Craig S.
> 
> 
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