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I am trying to customize , on Redhat 9
kernel 2.4.20-27.9 .
I several posts here that were very helpfull, but the LAST step i.e.
make install
Fails that it can't find aic7xxx
And after some checking , indeed it can't
I have two directories
/lib/modules/2.4.20-27.9
and
/lib/modules/2.4.20-27.9custom
in /lib/modules/2.4.20-27.9custom/kernel/drivers
there is only one dir (net)
but back in the orig /lib/modules/2.4.20-27.9/kernel/drivers
there are MANY directories.
One would think my compiles under
make dep, make modules , make modues_install
had failed, but they didn't
I tried copying the files over but that lead to unresolved symbol errors.
[I'm only recompiling to enable features that the OS says not present
i.e. apm ]
That brings up the topic of how your
kernel source directories are laid out,
and what the Makefile looks like ....
in particular the lines with the kernel-
version and such ...
If you just run make menuconfig you get the default config file that comes with the kernel. That probably will need a lot of tweeking to get it to work right. You are better off finding the RedHat config file.
Different distros save their default config file in different places. In Mandrake for example it is in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386. I think RedHat keeps it in /usr/src/linux/config but I'm not positive about that.
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