John,

The fact that your root/lib/modules is empty is normal.

The buildk script will create a ramdisk filesystem, copy
the contents of the ltsp_initrd_kit/root into that new ram
filesystem. It will then copy the modules from /lib/modules/2.4.19,
and it will create the modules.dep file.

Then, that ram based filesystem will be saved as a file, and
tacked onto the end of the kernel, and the kernel will be
tagged for Etherboot using the mknbi-linux command.

What I think you didn't do was copy the /lib/modules/2.4.19
tree over to /opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules.  Perhaps the recipe doesn't
say to do that.  I haven't tried following that recipe, because
I don't have multiple dhcp servers.

Also, once you copy the modules, you'll need to run depmod on
them, to create the modules.dep file.  take a look at the buildk
script, to see how depmod is being run when the initrd is build.
the process is similar.

Hope that helps,

Jim McQuillan
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, John Hammen wrote:

> Thanks for your quick reply. I did indeed build my own kernel, but from 
> what I got out of the parallel dhcp recipe, it seemed to be enough to 
> place the new kernel where tftp can get at it and edit dhcpd.conf to 
> point the clients to the new image, but it doesn't say anything about 
> the modules.
> 
> I'm unsure what to do here, because after compiling the kernel and then 
> running buildk in the ltsp_initrd_kit, I get a valid kernel image (works 
> fine) but the directory ltsp_initrd_kit/root/lib/modules is empty. Am I 
> missing a step to create the modules and the modules.dep file in this 
> directory?
> 
> -John
> 
> >John,
> >
> >Did you build your own kernel ?
> >
> >If you did, i'd say you forgot to copy the kernel modules to the
> >/opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules directory.
> >
> >
> >Jim McQuillan
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, John Hammen wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hi All, I've setup LTSP using dhcp on ports 1001/1002 according to the 
> >>instructions at http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/parallel_dhcp.txt, and 
> >>everything works fine, except I get the following error at boot time:
> >>
> >>Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.19/modules.dep (no such 
> >>file or directory)
> >>
> >>I tried symlinking /opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules/2.4.19 -> 
> >>/opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules/2.4.19-ltsp-1, but this results in a whole 
> >>slew of errors to the effect that the files were compiled for the wrong 
> >>version, so I'm not quite sure how I should create 
> >>/opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules/2.4.19 to make things work right.
> >>
> >>Any and all suggestions would be appreciated...
> >>
> >>-John
> >>
> >>
> >>
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