make modules_install : unknown symbols

[John Francis Lee]

Alexander...

I decided to try with the distributed kernel source... and I got the
same response. This was with the source and config distributed by redhat
and presently running the machine! 

So then I decided to delete a lot of modules, which I did bottom up as
you suggested. Extremely tedious. I had assumed that unchecking ISDN,
for instance, would have kept all the modules below ISDN from being
compiled. But I unchecked everything below ISDN by hand as you
suggested. And so on.

I got the same result again. I have a list of 1193 unique unknown
symbols from make modules_install!

I don't understand it. And /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358custom/ is three
times the size of the original!

I'm afraid to shut the machine down... it probably won't come back up!

Any insight into what might be wrong here?

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.
> 
> > > >  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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