Mark You are king
I cant remember NOT running && make modules_install but it seemed to do the job thanks a million gazillion :) On 4/26/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/26/05, Paul Kain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #1) Does it exist? > > > > slocate modules.dep > > > > gentoo root # slocate modules.dep > > /usr/share/man/man5/modules.dep/5/gz > > > > #2) Can you create it? > > > > gentoo root # depmod -a slocate modules.dep > > WARNING: couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3: no > > such file or directory > > FATAL: could not open /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3/modules.dep.temp > > for writing: No such file or directory > > > > I uess thats bad huh ? > > Very bad, but my command was inaccurate according to this email. > Please try once more: > > depmod -a > > and then do > > ls /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3. slocate wouldn't have worked unless > you did another updatedb. ls will always work > > One more command you should post back is just > > ls -la /lib/modules > > I think that you missed a step when you built your kernel > > 1) make menuconfig > > to set up the kernel and create .config > > 2) make > > to build the kernel > > 3) make modules_install > > to install the modules. This creates the directory > /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r3 for this kernel. I think you did not do > this step or the directory would be there. > > 4) mount boot;cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/XXX; vi grub.conf/etc. > > There is one other possibilitiy. Please do > > ls -al /usr/src > > If you linux link is set incorrectly I don't know what happens in this case. > > This problem should be very easy to figure out and fix. > > Cheers, > Mark > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
