Problem compiling kernel 2.6 on FC2

[Raúl Moratalla]

Timothy Murphy escribió:

>Raúl Moratalla wrote:
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>>I have created the directory but it has no modules and fails during the
>>boot process. I'm very frustrated with this version of Fedora, it has
>>(in my opinion) this and other silly and important bugs. Should this be
>>solved? What must I do for compile correctly the kernel and modules?
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>I've compiled linux-2.6.6 under Fedora-2 without any problems,
>so I doubt if your difficulties are anything to do with FC-2.
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>I wasn't clear what you were doing.
>The message seemed to be about a different /lib/modules/<version>
>to the version you were compiling.
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Arrrg, sorry I've misspelled (is this the correct word?) the underscore 
in: make modules_install
Thanks everybody for your help :)

>Do you have an /etc/modprobe.conf (used by 2.6 kernels)?
>Did you compile a 2.6 kernel on your machine before you installed FC-2?
>Maybe you need to install module-init-tools?
>(You can get this from www.kernel.org .)
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>To compile the kernel I would get linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2
>from http://www.kernel.org
>un-tar it in /usr/src/linux-2.6.6
>go to this directory and say
>make oldconfig; make xconfig [or make menuconfig]
>Make sure the settings are correct for your machine, and say
>make bzImage; make modules
>and then (as root)
>make modules_install
>make install
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