I am trying to build a new kernel with the 2.6.21 tarball. I am getting an error when I try to install the modules. The error is that the module 'blahblah.ko' does not exist and sure enough it does not. These are the steps that I have done:

1) download linux-2.6.21.tar.bz from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
2) uncompress and untar the kernel.
3) make menuconfig and load other config file ( /boot/config-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 )
4) apply the bmcsensor patch ( http://bmcsensors-26.sourceforge.net/ )
5) make oldconfig
6) make all ( everything build successfully, even the modules )
7) make modules_install

At this point I get all the errors out missing files. What am I missing here......

Keith

You usually have to make the modules first before installing.

make modules
make modules_install

Doesn't the "make all" target make the modules? During the build process there are numerous files that have a [M] in front of them. Does the [M] denote a kernel module?

Keith

Turned out to be a module that was not compiling. I applied a patch to pick up and read the BMC sensors on my motherboard. The patch broke a module, even though the patch was successful. I did not see the error as it flew by too quickly using the '-j 12' option I applied the latest development version of the BMC sensor patch to the 2.6.21 kernel, it built fine, and I am up and running.

Keith

Ah, yeah, that's true in 2.6.x kernels. Brainfarts suck..