[plug] Modules problem with PPC Debian machine

[Chris Caston]

Okay,

I tried reinstalling the kernel image and it did create the "needed"
directory in /lib/modules but when booting it spews up and says
unresolved symbol for everything.

Perhaps I need to check which kernel I am booting off in bootX. Just
tweaking around with that thing and trying to boot and constantly
restarting when it doesn't it a bit of a pain.

Any ideas?

regards


On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 21:46, Chris Caston wrote:
> I installed the kernel images from apt and I'll check exactly what it is
> pointing to in BootX.
> 
> depmod -av
> 
> gives a whole bunch of failure messages (none of the things is tried to
> check work)
> 
> Should I just reinstall the system or is there away to fix it?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Chris
> On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 21:32, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > Presuming you built and installed the modules, did you run depmod -av. 
> > Sounds like you have a system that is not set up properly and things
> > that would normally be run on boot are being missed.
> > 
> > BillK
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:58, Chris Caston wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I have an oldworld Mac (7220/200) that I have installed PPC Woody on
> > > decided to cut my teeth building a firewall that I also plan to make a
> > > SIP proxy. 
> > > 
> > > Being somewhat of an amateur fumbling around in dark I first installed
> > > the system with the 2.2 kernel and was later (after much pratting about)
> > > was able to upgrade to 2.4 and boot to it correctly using BootX from
> > > MacOS. 
> > > 
> > > The kernel I select from BootX is 2.4.18
> > > 
> > > uname -a delivers:
> > > 
> > > Linux debainppc 2.4.18-newpmac #1 <incorrect time/date snipped> ppc
> > > unknown
> > > 
> > > Now in /lib/modules I have the following directories:
> > > 
> > > 2.2.20-pmac/
> > > 2.4.18-powerpc/
> > > 
> > > lsmod mod only gives the headings
> > > 
> > > and when I try to start 
> > > 
> > > Shorewall I get a long list of errors the most relevant of which is most
> > > likely:
> > > 
> > > modprobe: can't open the dependencies file
> > > /lib/modules/2.4.18-newpmac/modules.dep (no such file or directory)
> > > 
> > > Obviously I'm missing all my modules. 
> > > 
> > > Any idea how to get them back?
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > 
> > > Chris Caston
> > > 
> > > Aptitude Technology
> > > 
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