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Re: depmod and multi kernel systems



Am Die, 2002-11-12 um 18.08 schrieb grandmother@telia.com:
> Hi
> 
> I've installed two kernels with modules in /lib/modules/2.2.20-
> flavour1 and /lib/modules/2.2.20-flavour2, altough when I'm booting 
> the second kernel I installed, I get a l lot of unresolved symbols 
> since it looks for the modules in /lib/modules/2.2.20-flavour1 
> instead of /lib/modules/2.2.20-flavour2. How do I fix so the kernel 
> looks in the correct directory?

I guess you edited the Makefile of the kernels to add the "flavours" ?
If so:

- Boot 2.2.20-flavour2
- type "uname -a"

This will tell you that what you think is "flavour2" is in fact
"flavour1". 

The kernel looks for its modules in /lib/modules/$(uname -r). 

> I've used Kernel-package to compile and create kernel*.deb's to 
> install, and lilo as bootloader.

Dunno about the "debian" way
 

> And a second question. Is there any arguments for using ext2 
> instead of ext3? Cause I can't find any that would make anyone 
> choose ext2 instead of ext3, and still Debian 3.0 installs on ext2.
> 

Not that i knew of. Ext3 is rock stable.
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