Linux booting problems

[Kenny Donahue]

pll at lanminds.com wrote:

>In a message dated: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:30:58 EST
>Kenny Donahue said:
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>>ext3 comes up then it try's to load the ext3 module.
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>[nit-picking: "tries" not "try's" :) ]
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>>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!!!
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>Chances are there's a modules.conf or something which loaded these 
>from the default kernel, and it's still trying...
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>>make modules_install
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>but you probably just blew them away with this step here.
>(of course, I could be wrong :)
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>>make install
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>I recommend not doing the make install, rather, manually copying
>arch/<arch>/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-whatever and editing the 
>lilo.conf to add a new kernel.  Then run lilo to recognize this new 
>kernel and boot from it.
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>That way you don't lose your old kernel.
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I did do a make modules.  Sorry about the spelling but I'm typing in anger.
I save the output from my "make install" and it does A LOT more then
just copy hte bzImage vmlinuz and System map
"make install &> /tmp/makeInstallOutput"
Thanks,
Kenny