RE: module loading problems
if everything necessary was compiled in,
could you just delete everything from /etc/modules?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Wright [mailto:d.wright@open.ac.uk]
> Sent: 22 May 2000 16:35
> To: ulla.russell@pp.inet.fi
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: module loading problems
>
>
> Quoting ulla.russell@pp.inet.fi (ulla.russell@pp.inet.fi):
> >
> > He downloaded kernel version 2.2.9.
> >
> > It was my first time installing a kernel
> > and we read from various sources before he
> > became impatient. We then did the following:
> >
> > tar xzf /usr/src/kernel...tar.gz
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > make menuconfig
> > make-kpkg clean
> > make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
> > dpkg -i ../kernel-image..deb
> >
> > With the new kernel installed we get the following
> > messages:
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > calculating module dependencies ...done
> > loading modules: cdrom can't locate module cdrom
> > snbfs can't locate module snbfs
> > nfs can't locate module nfs
> > ip_alias can't locate module ip_alias
> > rarp can't locate module rarp
> > cyclades can't locate module cyclades
> > serial can't locate module serial
> > 3c509 can't locate module 3c509
> > ppp /lib/modules/2.2.9/net/slhc.o unresolved symbol
> kmalloc_R93d4cfe6
> > /lib/modules/2.2.9/net/slhc.o unresolved symbol print_Rdd172261
> > /lib/modules/2.2.9/net/slhc.o unresolved symbol kfree_R037a0cba
> > slhc:No such file or directory
>
> The usual reason is that you need to edit /etc/modules.
> When you installed, you probably loaded some modules at
> the appropriate stage, and this writes these module names into
> /etc/modules.
>
> Now you've installed a new kernel, and it has different things
> built in and different things compiled as modules. But when you
> boot up, the init.d scripts will try to modprobe or insmod all
> the modules listed in /etc/modules. Some may now be built in,
> some you may not have built, etc.
>
> > It a little irrating booting and rebooting just so as to be
> > able to read boot messages.
>
> Just press Shift-PageUp/PageDown (and don't switch VCs) to read
> the boot up stuff.
>
> Cheers,
>
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