In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Last chance to help me before I reformat the blasted thing and reinstall > Slink (I will probably NEVER install potato, so far it's a piece of, well > you know...) > > I recompiled a 2.0.36 kernel, of course I had to use gcc 2.72. I copied > System.map all over known creation, made modules_install did depmod and > update-modules, everything seemed fine, until I reboot. Now I get 7 > BAZILLION unresolved symbol references. I figured it's crufty, right? So I > blew away the modules directory for 2.0.36, redid make modules_install and > reboot.
Although this is the way it's done generically, there's a better way with Debian. Install the kernel-package deb and then you can install/remove/purge kernels with dpkg. It will handle all the fiddly bits like updating modules, System.map. >From the README: # cd <kernel source tree> # make xconfig (or menuconfig) # make-kpkg clean # make-kpkg -rfakeroot --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image # dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_<arch>.deb # shutdown -r now
