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[Thomas Fox <belvdr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe:

depmod -a

will create modules.dep.

Tom

--- "Marquez, Chris" <cmarquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> RHEL3ES
> Current kernel; 2.4.21-4.ELsmp
> 
> SA work is not my cup of tea...I know enough to be dangerous.
> My SA is having issues upgrading our kernel from 2.4.21-4 to 2.4.21-15.
> Below is his emails, comments, and errors sent to me.
> Any thoughts?...anything obvious.
> 
> Again, I know this is way off topic, but I'm not on any Linux list and I know
> a lot of you are really Linux savvy.
> Also, I'm a child in this area and anything overly technical will go over my
> head, but I will pas it on...I have personally upgraded or changed kernels
> two or three times in my life and that was a while ago (SuSE 7).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Marquez
> Oracle DBA
> 
> 
> ===============================
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:27 AM
> Subject: FW: Kernel Upgrade Instructions
> 
> The error is caused because 
> "/lib/modules/$kernel/modules.dep
> does not exist for the kernel i am trying to upgrade to.
> But i don;'t know how that gets generated...
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:23 AM
> Subject: RE: Kernel Upgrade Instructions
> 
> I was able to compile the kernel. that was painful, but now I have the
> following issue.
> I am stucked at the point where I have to create the RAM disk Like so
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-15.ELsmp.img 2.4.21-15.Elsmp
> And it fails saying the following
> [root@db05 boot]# mkinitrd initrd-2.4.21-15.ELsmp.img 2.4.21-15.ELsmp No dep
> file found for kernel 2.4.21-15.Elsmp
> I wanted to have both lilo.conf.anaconda and grub.conf so that Ivan can lean
> both loaders.
> For grub I need the RAM disk and I cannot get it to work.
> I have never had these many issues compiling a freaking kernel...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:51 PM
> Subject: RE: Kernel Upgrade Instructions
> 
> All,
> We followed my instructions on the kernel upgrade but the RPM failed to put
> the image file under /boot
> I then after about 1 hour of dealing with this issue and downloading other
> kernel RPMs, decided to download a source RPM for manual compilation.
> I have been having a great deal of trouble trying to compile this kernel.
> ===============================
> 
> 
> 
> 



                
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