Linux booting problems

[Rob Lembree]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:30, Kenny Donahue wrote:
> Ok.... deeep breath. I'm ready to though
> Linux out.  I've been fighting with a Linux kernel
> build for a while now. I'm getting very angry.
> I can load a Redhat 7.2 distribution and everything
> works.  I need to patch the kernel for a project at
> work. so, I do my patch (../fs/proc/base.c if it makes a
> difference) then....
> make mrproper
> make xconfig
>     add my scsi driver into the kernel
>     add ext3 into the kernel
> make dep
> make bzImage

make modules     <------- you missed a step

> make modules_install
> make install
> edit lilo.conf
> run lilo
> reboot
> 
> ext3 comes up then it try's to load the ext3 module.
> it fails with undefined symbols in jdb.o and ext3.o.
> Why is it trying to load modules that are suposed to be
> in the kernel!!!!  I looked in /lib/modules/linux-2.4.7-10custom/....
> and these modules DONT EXIST!!!
> What is going on.
> Please keep me from hating Linux.
> Thanks,
> Kenny
> 
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