Re: [TCLUG:1986] dev kernel

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

What I did to fix this is just modified /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit so it did not
look for the preffered modules.. eg, change 'depmod -a preffered' in both
instances to just depmod -a. Works fine.

-Nate Carlson
 The Infinite Loop
 natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Gabe Turner wrote:

> Has any one had problems installing any of the dev kernels in RedHat?  Last
> night I finally got two ethernet cards working in my box running RedHat.
> But I wanted to up to a dev kernel because they have a lot more support for
> IP masquerading and the like which I need to masquerade my DSL connection.
> So I downloaded the 2.1.126 source and compiled it.   I set the new kernel
> up in LILO as "test" and booted it.  For some reason, it couldn't find the
> module dependencies upon boot up, so I went and ran depmod -a and check to
> see if it made modules.dep, and it had.  So I rebooted once again.  I still
> got the same error and looking more closely I saw that it was looking for
> modules.dep in /lib/modules/preferred/  But there is no directory by that
> name on my machine.  So I rebooted, this time using my old 2.0.34 kernel,
> and to my surprise, it couldn't find its module dependencies either!  I'm a
> little baffled as to why installing the dev kernel wiped out my old
> dependencies.  I've tried making symlinks called preferred that point to my
> /lib/modules/2.1.126/ but RedHat mysteriously removes the symlink upon
> bootup...  I'm new to RedHat so if I'm missing something completely
> obvious, just slap me.  Oh.. genuine help would also be appreciated.. hehe
> 
> Thanx in advance
> 
> Gabe
> 
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