Kernel build failure

[David Rigler]

Bob Chiodini wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 11:37, David Rigler wrote:
> 
>>Hello
>>
>>i used yum to download the kernel source which is 
>>linux-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl. i then copied config-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl from
>>/boot to /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config. Ran 'make oldconfig', 'make 
>>bzImage' ... etc BUT it does not produce a working kernel. During boot
>>'jbd' and 'ext3' modules complain about wrong version. The're for 
>>....2149.nptl not the new ...2149.nptlcustom
>>
>>The one possible strange thing is that 'make modules_install' ends
>>like this
>>
>>mkdir -p pcmcia; \
>>find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{}\
>>pcmcia
>>if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 
>>2.4.22-1.2149.nptlcustom; fi
>>[root at TESTBOX linux-2.4]#
>>
>>as if that last line wasnt executed ?? and the script bombed ??
>>
>>Any ideas whats going on ??
>>
> 
> 
> David,
> 
> Possibly the initrd is not being built.  Did you run mkinitrd after
> building the new kernel?  Something like:
> 
> mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.img \
> 2.4.22-1.2149.nptlcustom
> 
> Bob...
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> 

thanks Bob that was the answer. (No mention of that in the README)

Dave