make modules_install : unknown symbols

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On Oct 15, 2004 at 17:56, John Francis Lee in a soothing rage wrote:

[Please do not top post]

>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.
>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?
Your config is messed up. Delete the whole 2.6.8.1 source tree.
Copy the latest kernel .config from /boot to where you untarred
a fresh kernel source. Run make oldconfig twice as Mr. Dalloz
suggested. The use either 'make config' or 'make menuconfig' to
configure your kernel. Do not use xconfig or gconfig. Then
'make all' before 'make modules_install'.

N.Emile...
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