Re: Kernel built with kernel-package has numerous Unresolved symbols

["Robert C. Mosher II" <mosher@andrews.edu>]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 17:12, Daniel Bidwell wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 15:51, Robert C. Mosher II wrote:
> > 
> > I just compiled a new kernel using kernel-package, following these
> > steps:
> > 
> > mv /lib/modules/2.4.18 /lib/modules/2.4.18.old
> > cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18
> > make menuconfig
> > (Here I set Ext3 support and SMB file system support to be built in)
> > make-kpkg clean
> > make-kpkg --revision=paravel.1.0 kernel_image
> > dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.4.18-sun4u_paravel.1.0_sparc.deb
> > shutdown -r now
> > 
> Did the package install actually install the /lib/modules/2.4.18
> directory and files?
> 

It did install the directory and files. However smbmount says the kernel
does not have smbfs filesystem support, even though I selected it to be
built in to the kernel. Perhaps these two problems are related.

> > Upon boot up I got a screen full of "depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18/..." messages (see below). Is there something I'm
> > forgetting to do in making this kernel image? Should I remove these
> > modules from the kernel configuration? I have built successful kernels
> > on i386 before, but am a bit lost as to kernel options for Sparc's.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rob Mosher
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