> > At home I installed Mandrake 8.1. Because I have hardware that doesnt > work fine out of the box I tried to build my own kernel. > > The problem is that installing the new kernel with different config > overwrites modules and the kernel from the distro cant load any > modules anymore. >
This does not (erm ... should not) happen unless you modify configuration in a way that changes some definitions (look how kernel mkversion works). Simple example is to disable devfs. > I'd suggest to add some suffix to the kernel version in the makefile to > avoid this problem. It can be removed by people who know what they are doing > anyway. > ie the built kernel version would be something like 2.4.8-34.1mdksrc > People who know what they are doing know that they have to change version string when they make incompatible changes. -andrej
