I've just (for the first time) tried to compile the kernel
(2.0.34) on this hamm box. I was a bit nervous, being rather new
to this linux thing, but all went quite well once I realised
that I had to move the old /lib/modules/2.0.34 directory before
building & installing the new kernel.
The only problem I have now is that an error message comes
up near the end of the boot sequence:
Cannot load char-major-10
(It repeats -- i.e. it is shown twice.) AFAICT this correlates
to misc.o, and I didn't select anything that needed the misc.o
module, and therefore it wasn't built. Why does the machine then
look for it? (BTW, I changed /etc/modules to merely contain
the line
auto
-- the rest is commented out. This means that kerneld should now
be running the show.)
I found that I can remove this message by adding the line
alias char-major-10 off
to /etc/conf.modules. However, (and here is the point of this
rather rambling mail), will this break anything? Why do I need
to specifically turn off something that shouldn't be registering
with anything else anyway?
[I must say, however, after a few weeks running a Slackware box
that had been preinstalled for me, Debian is certainly a breath
of fresh air in comparison :)]
TIA for any help!
ali.
