[plug] RH6.2 Kernel problem

[David Griffiths]

>stephen humble wrote:
>> Anyone got any ideas or suggestions about this ?
>
>rm -f /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/*/*.o
>make modules_install
>depmod -a
>
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>(/.)

A handy thing to do here is - after doing your "make mrproper" and "make
xconfig"
edit the Makefile EXTRAVERSION line to include your own unique identifier.
eg change
	EXTRAVERSION = -15
to
	EXTRAVERSION = -15_SH1
where SH stands for Stephen Humble (or whatever).

When the make modules_install occurs it will then create it's own subdir in
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0_SH1 automatically, and the SH1 tag is compiled into the
kernel itself (shows with uname -r). Then you carry on as usual - (make dep
clean bzImage etc).

Don't forget to include the extra tag when copying bzImage to /boot (and in
lilo.conf too).

This should completely eliminate problems with different kernel
compilations and their modules
- I think I have 5 different kernels booting from my RH6.2 lilo config at
present (just messing
about).

cheers,

Dave




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