make modules_install : unknown symbols

[John Francis Lee]

Alexander...

On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 10:21, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 15.10.2004 schrieb John Francis Lee um 4:54:
> 
> > > >  cp /boot/.config-2.6.5-1.358 .config
> > > >  make oldconfig
> > > 
> > > You should run "make oldconfig" twice - just to be sure. Under some
> > > conditions that is needed.
> > What about the guy in the previous post, Jeff Vian, who tells me this is
> > the wrong thing to do to begin with?
> 
> He did tell you to better choose the better fitting
> /boot/.config-2.6.8-1.521 kernel config file because you did take the
> one for the older 2.6.5 kernel.
I have no such config... I got my kernel from kernel.org... is there
some problem now with compiling linus' kernel on redhat?

> 
> > > >  make xconfig
> > > 
> > > What do you change here? Do you add modules or deactivate some?
> > 
> > I removed many modules that I do not need. The default Fedora config
> > makes so many modules that the make had previously failed when I ran out
> > of room on my root volume.
> 
> So, when you start from scratch building your custom kernel, then start
> editing and removing modules from bottom of the xconfig window. This
> takes better care that you do not remove things on top which are needed
> by others below.
> 
> > John Francis Lee <jfl at robinlea.com>
> 
> Alexander
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