Compiling kernel problem

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 26 December 2003 19:19, Juan wrote:
> Hi, Im a linux newbie :). Im trying to compile my own kernel, so I go to
> //usr/src and try to compile the last version I have. I do:
>
> make xconfig (configure it)
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make install
>
> On "make install" I got the next message:
>
> No module sata_sil found for kernel 2.4.23, aborting.

Shouldn't you say "make modules" at some point?

Personally I say "make oldconfig xconfig"
and then (after choosing my options)

make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules

and then

make modules_install; make install

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