Hi Paul,
I had this problem myself and thought I was going mad as it was doing
this on the three machines that I installed it on. I ended up looling
through usenet for the answer and it seems quite common. I believe it
has something to do with incorrect installation of modules.
So reboor your computer and when you get to "finding module
Dependancies" do a contol-C which will allow you to continue. Sometimes
you can do depmod -a to clean up the installed modules, I think they are
links left over from the initial install. That didn't work for me, so I
also had to go to the /lib/modules directory and there will be a
directory called 2.2.xxx or similar, delete that directory and then go
to the /usr/src/linux and redo the commands make modules and make
modules_install
If you search on usenet newsgroups you will find much more information
on this problem,
cheers
Johann
Paul Clyne wrote:
>
> Good listers,
>
> I'm having a problem with compiling my own Kernel (I have done so several
> times sucessfully in the past on RH5.2) but on RH6.0....
>
> I do all the 'propper' things, in the propper order and get zImage which I
> then move to /boot, update lilo.conf and lilo.. all seems in order..
>
> However when I re-boot (their must be a way of 'running' a new kernel
> without rebooting) the start-up gets as far as 'FINDING MODULE
> DEPENDANCIES' the HD flashes for a while then all is silent (even leaving
> the system wait for 10+ minutes it didn't carry on).
>
> No problem I thought, I'll just re-boot with my old working kernel and see
> what I did wrong... Unfortunately the old (used to work) kernel suffers
> the same fate (ie : FINDING MODULE DEPENDANCIES and hanging).
>
> So what gives ?. I'm a newbie and I'm stumped ?.
>
> What did I do that broke BOTH kernels. I re-installed from the CD and the
> old Kernel image works again (remember this is the exact same backup image
> that refused to work in the steps above).
>
> Possibly I've broken one of the modules ? (ie : make modules or make
> modules_install) but I really wan't to use an optimized Kernel for my box
> but each time I re-compile I have to go through the whole re-install
> process again.
>
> Can anyone shed any light for me ?. What other information do you require
> ?.(I _think_ the release level is 2.2.15 but I'm going of memory on this one)
>
> Thanks heaps in advance.
>
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