Post-kernel-build woes...

[Ilya Palagin]

William O'Higgins wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I recently built a kernel for my Debian laptop, and it hasn't turned out
> the way I was hoping.  On boot I get a bunch of errors along this line:
> 
> modprobe:  Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.26/modules.dep
> (No such file or directory)
> 
> I looked, and no, that directory isn't there.
> 
> Here's what I did when compiling the kernel:
> 
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
> cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-new
> 
> Then I reconfigure my bootloader, making sure to keep the last good
> configuration as a backup.
> 
> make modules install seemed to work just fine, but *something* went
> wrong.  The errors that I see like this in Google are related to running
> make modules install or running a particularly wonky Unstable version.
> Any pointers would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Debian has a more convenient and safe way to compile kernels.  See
<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html>
"Debian standard method" worked for me a few days ago, when I compiled 
2.4.26.



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