Re: Kernel Recompile

[vaidhy@wwdg.com]

I am not sure if I am getting you right. The lib/modules gets properly compiled... but /etc/modules which are written when I install the base kernel doesn't get cleared up. So it tries to load psaux driver after I compiled support into the kernel. I did do make-kpkg and it also doesn't clear /etc/modules.

Thanks
Vaidhy

> >Shouldn't /etc/modules get cleared or changed after you recompile the kernel
> >if you change some options. For eg.., compile PS/2 mouse support in the
> >kernel instead of as a module. AFAIK, it doesn't and the new kernel causes
> >paging errors when it tries to load the non-exsisting modules.
> 
>   I often (unintentionally) do these sorts of things.  If you change the
> kernel version and use different modules then insmod will be unable to find
> the file you specify and will just display an error without affecting the
> kernel.  If you use the same kernel version and do "rm -rf
> /lib/modules/2.a.bb" before "make modules_install then everything will be fine
> again.  If you use make-kpkg to make a .deb file of the kernel then installing
> that .deb file will again wipe out the old junk from /lib/modules and
> everything will still be fine.
>   The only way to possibly cause problems is by manually recompiling the
> kernel not using make-kpkg and not removing the obsolete files from
> /lib/modules.  If you choose to do that then you're operating totally outside
> the Debian system and it can't do anything to help you.  Just don't do that.
> 
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