I decided to celebrate my new adsl connection by going over to gentoo; did a stage 1 install without any difficulty, my make.conf has march athlon-xp, I'm not using any ~x86 stuff. As kernel I used gentoo-sources.
First kernel install with genkernel just to do this quickly aiming at optimizing kernel a little later. After having emerged things like kde and openoffice I went back to the kernel and decided to do it the traditional way: make menuconfig make dep make clean bzImage modules modules_install ... I have experience in various other distro's so I know the usual procedure ... BUT this time things don't work. Modules won't load, insmod module gives me a series of unresolved symbols. Note that I have done depmod -a, System.map is correct, the system boots ok (important things are not as modules). I got around this by building my custom kernel with genkernel --config and now everything seems to work (except nvidia, see my next post). I am very puzzled; WHY won't "usual" kernel building work ? Is it possible that kernel gets built with different flags than modules ? I didn't do make mrproper but as the sources have never changed could that be the problem ?? -- Michele Alzetta -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
