Re: Why is my kernel broken?
> > trying to install is 2.4.16-k7, which is appropriate for my hardware. I
> > can get and install the package without incident, and everything appears
> > to be configured as it should be a whole slew of:
> >
> > modprobe: cannot locate dependencies file
> > /lib/modules/2.4.16-k7/modules.dep--no such file or directory.
>
> make sure you have a /etc/modules.conf or equiv
I've got that. I even tried adding the line "lib/modules/2.4.16-k7/" to
the /etc/modutils/paths file, but that didn't fix the problem and
generated extra complaints about invalid lines in /etc/modules.conf.
> when you have booted the 2.4.16-k7 kernel . . .
Ah, but this is just the problem. The kernel doesn't boot--I get the
modprobe error message during startup, and the kernel panics.
> . . . run "depmod -a" and that should update your
> /lib/modules/2.4.16-k7/modules.dep
I'll try this anyway and see if it works.
> and than probably reboot for safe measure ??
>
> or just try insmod'ing a few modules from
> /lib/modules/2.4.16-k7/kernel/*/something.o
This probably won't work until I have the kernel running, but if I still
have problems with the module afterwards I'll keep this in mind.
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