[plug] Debain queries....THANX TO ALL>>>>>>

[bk]

On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 10:03:40PM +0800, Desire'e wrote:
> yes i did a make modules ; make modules_install..
> the thing is they were threre for three boots/power offs...
> then went missing ...

So you rebuilt the kernel yourself and this started to happen? It could be
the following:
	* make modules did not complete => failed.
	* uselss lines in /etc/modules

>  > Did you do a make modules ; make
> modules_install > when you recompiled ? > I always do a depmod -av as well,
debian does depmod -a automatically upon boot. I think I modified my boot
scripts so it doesn't run depmod -a if modules.dep exists but that would
cause problems if I decide to recompile the same version of the kernel,
which is unlikely. Recently I forgot to compile in sound support so I
decide to compile as a module and had it installed without rebootingthe
new kernel. I had to remember to depmod -a which isn't much to ask, if you
know what is going on (recreating list of modules).

> just to be sure.. > Tho that's probably more force of habit than anything..

It's qutie hard to diagnose the problem and solve it without crucial
information. Often, people forget what they do to their machine and find
out their machine is broken. It has happened to me -- a problem lived for
1-2months until some guy assisted me locating it and then I went *BINGO*,
solved, heh.

-David (bk at bofh.ns.ca).