Re: Upgrading to 2.6
On 1 Apr, Rajesh Menon wrote:
> hi,
> is module-init-tools installed?
Yes, I installed it before compiling the kernel.
-Chris
>
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Christopher Judd wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been running a 2.4.18 kernel for quite some time and I decided
>> to try upgrading (running testing). I downloaded the 2.6.4 source from
>> unstable. I built the kernel package with make-kpkg, but when I try to
>> install the .deb I get the following error:
>>
>> gibbs:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_cdj.1.0_i386.deb
>> (Reading database ... 77918 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to replace kernel-image-2.6.4 cdj.1.0 (using kernel-image-2.6.4_cdj.1.0_i386.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement kernel-image-2.6.4 ...
>> Setting up kernel-image-2.6.4 (cdj.1.0) ...
>> /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_5: modprobe failed
>> FATAL: Module aic7xxx not found.
>> FATAL: Module sg not found.
>> FATAL: Module sd_mod not found.
>> Failed to create initrd image.
>> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.4 (--install):
>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> kernel-image-2.6.4
>>
>> In the configuration (make menuconfig) I specified comipiling aic7xxx
>> support, but not as a module. What gives? Did I miss some step?
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>
> rajesh menon at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~prm225/
>
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