Re: Experience with 5/21 boot/root/base disks
Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Steve Greenland <stevegr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
> > Aaah, but in this case it's the kernel off of the original
> > (i.e. downloaded from master) boot disk, not the one installed
> > on the hard disk, right?.
>
> If you are doing an installation, it should copy the kernel from
> the boot disk to the hard disk. Am I missing something?
Bruce wrote earlier:
>Oh darn. I did put a "depmod -a" in the kernel installation step.
>It's in the install_kernel() function in /Install/extract_kernel.sh .
>I wonder what's going wrong?
I interpeted this "After copying the kernel from the boot disk to
the hard disk, I run 'depmod -a' against the kernel on the harddisk".
This is also the kernel that ends up on the custom boot floppy that
is created during the install process.
*But*, when I see this error, which is while running "Install
Device Modules" (or something like that, item P on the install
menu), I have booted from the original boot floppy, not the
one installed on my hard disk and subsequently depmoded. I guess
my thought was "Have you depmoded the kernel on the boot
disk?". Do you need to? Do I totally misunderstand what's
going on during the boot/install procedure (quite possible)?
To be clear: when I boot from the floppy created during the install
procedure, or directly from the hard disk, I have no problem running
insmod.
Steve "Yes, I know 'depmod' isn't a verb" Greenland
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