I had followed (YES, I had followed them very carefully)the steps of installing a new kernel according to this kernel HOWTO
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...TO.html#AEN218, When I "make modules_install", first it shows many "INSTALLING xxxxx", and then there come out lot of error messages like "depmod: ... Unresolved symbols ....".
So I check the man page of depmod, and I put this command:
/sbin/depmod -F System.map -e 1>dm.out 2>dm.err
and
ls -l dm.*
it shows:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240581 07-19 11:20 dm.err
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 07-19 11:20 dm.out
Surprisingly,
the size of the dm.out is 0 !!! WHY ?
And I open the dm.err, so much error: Unresolved symbol ....
a piece of the dm.err:
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/edd.o
depmod: kmalloc_R93d4cfe6
depmod: eddnr_R1516d864
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.o
depmod: kmalloc_R93d4cfe6
depmod: __generic_copy_to_user_Rd523fdd3
depmod: __generic_copy_from_user_R116166aa
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/crypto/cryptoapi.o
depmod: kmalloc_R93d4cfe6
depmod: request_module_R27e4dc04
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/crypto/cryptoloop/cryptoloop.o
depmod: blksize_size_R2f30b4b6
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/addon/aep/paep.o
depmod: __ioremap_R9eac042a
depmod: pci_register_driver_R14cc990a
depmod: __pollwait_R4a41840c
depmod: kmalloc_R93d4cfe6
depmod: __down_failed_interruptible
depmod: __up_wakeup
depmod: pcibios_present_R520a75b9
depmod: __generic_copy_to_user_Rd523fdd3
depmod: __generic_copy_from_user_R116166aa
depmod: request_irq_R0c60f2e0
depmod: __down_failed
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/drivers/addon/cipe/cipcb.o
depmod: __out_of_line_bug_R8b0fd3c5
depmod: kmalloc_R93d4cfe6
depmod: alloc_skb_R392e1d36
depmod: system_utsname_Rb12cdfe7
depmod: check_tasklist_locked_R15bb5893
depmod: xtime_Rf31ddf83
depmod: ip_finish_output_Rb8fa82fc
