🚀 go-pugleaf

On 24 Nov 1996 22:32:21 GMT, the aliens once again beamed spy-rays into Edy
Gasparini's brain, resulting in :

>hi,
>
>i've installed RedHat 4.0 and everything is OK. I now want to customise the
>kernel to suit my environment (and trim the fat). i've read the kernel
>HOWTO and modules.txt
>
<how to config & compile kernel snipped!>
>
>when i test the new kernel by booting from the floppy, i get a whole bunch
>of error mesgs from insmod (too many to list here, but mainly of
>"unresolved symbol" type).
>
>even though i get these errors, i can still use kernel modules, such as
>Network and Sound - so, it seems that the new kernel is OK.
>
>how can i make the nasty error mesgs go away? there is about two screenfuls
>of guff that mess up the pretty boot messages.

I think (and I'm probably _very_ wrong here, so someone please enlighten
me!) that the system doesn't keep a list of modules built for that kernel
build (apart from modules.dep) - it just looks under
/lib/modules/<kernel_version> and tries to load everything it finds. I cured
it by piping depmod to a tmp file, reading it,  and deleting everything that
was broke (i.e. that I wasn't using - SCSI, for instance) from under the
/lib/modules tree.

Also note that for some reason I haven't fully investigated yet, it tries to
load the appletalk module (I forget the module name). I just "alias off"'d
it until I get around to investigating why this is so...

As everybody may guess, I'm new to the modular kernels. Pretty trick stuff
really...

CYa,
	Rod.