Slack 10 Kernel 2.6.9 Recompile

[babbing]

A lot of them also refer to improper characters, such as spaces, used in the EXTRAVERSION. Be careful there. You might also consider getting rid of the directory(s) that modules_install is using, since it seems like you have done this a few times.

Another tip: When you edit the EXTRAVERSION, make sure to start over at the make dep stage, since everything forward of that is dependent upon it.

[vwgtiturbo]

What I ended up doing the last time is leaving it to it's default values (I believe it is '-1' or something like that...). I got rid of the modules_install directory (linux-2.6.9) starting at about the 4th time or so. As far as the 'make dep', isn't that obsolete with the 2.6 kernels? I get a warning every time I do it, and it says something about not being necessary anymore... Beats me. I don't know what the good points of the 2.6 kernel, but my system will not be using it for now. I will get it figured out eventually, but I think it is going to take alot of time. Everything that I have found online (which isn't much, really) talks about things (potential solutions) that we have already discussed here. I did all of them, with no luck. Crap.

[SkyNet]

I'm guessing here, but from these error messages what I think is happening is that make modules_install is trying to find a directory, and if not found create it and put the modules in it. So perhaps the problem lies in you don't have access rights to the area in which this directory is being created.

My question. Are you root when you execute this command? Also you may wish to scrap your downloaded kernel, and re-download a new one. Perhaps the one you have is corrupted somehow.

[vwgtiturbo]

Yeah, I ended up doing the entire procedure as root, instead of just switching to root at modules_install. Is there some sort of script that the system follows when you execute 'make modules_install'? If it is script based, maybe I could look at it and see what the heck is going on...

[brice]

I get this error:

root@hell:/usr/src/linux-2.6.9# make modules_install
ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory
make: *** [_modinst_] Error 1

I had this same problem.. after plenty of messing around, I finally discovered that there was whitespace after my EXTRAVERSION:

ie.
"EXTRAVERSION = -win4lin "
vs.
"EXTRAVERSION = -win4lin"

this fixed it right up..

hope this helps,

Brice Burgess

[vwgtiturbo]

Thanks for the tip! I have been searching for DAYS for an answer to this. I really hope that this is my problem...

[k3nv]

That did it for me! Thanks. I had a little space when I changed the Extraversion... doh!!!

I get this error:

root@hell:/usr/src/linux-2.6.9# make modules_install
ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory
make: *** [_modinst_] Error 1

I had this same problem.. after plenty of messing around, I finally discovered that there was whitespace after my EXTRAVERSION:

ie.
"EXTRAVERSION = -win4lin "
vs.
"EXTRAVERSION = -win4lin"

this fixed it right up..

hope this helps,

Brice Burgess