I'm a total newbie.....I'm running RH 9....after compiling to kernel 2.6.3....I rebooting my computer.
and in booting procces of redhat 9 default kernel which usually presenting the message like :

Initialing USB Controller (USB uhci) [OK]
Initialing USB Keyboard [OK]
Initialing Mouse {OK]


but in booting proces of kernel 2.6.3, exactly presenting some errors booting process like this :

Initialing USB Controller (USB uhci) : Fatal : Modul usb_uhci not found [Failed]

Initialing USB Keyboard : Fatal : Modul Keybdev not found [Failed]

Initialing Mouse : Fatal : Modul Mousedev not found [Failde]

applying iptables firewall rules bal bla bla bla
try IP tables-restore-h or iptables--restore bala bla bla : [Failed]

flushing all current rules and user defined cain : iptables : v1.7a can't init alize iptables "table" filter bla bla bla [Failed]

clearing all current rules and user defined cain : iptables : v1.7a can't init alize iptables "table" filter bla bla bla [Failed]


so what the solution for this problem.....I want to recompile kernel 2.6.3

did you:
make modules
make modules_install

?

--Rounan

yeah......and no found error when I installing the kernel 2..6.3

have you updated software, partitularly module-init-tools, as per:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799

Also, check that your modprobe.conf has been updated properly from your old modules.conf

--Rounan

could it be a system.map thing? I had trouble with the 2.6.x kernels until i found the "install" command. So my kernel compile commands look like this (make sure /boot is mounted):

#make menuconfig
#make
#make modules_install
#install

or you could do it all on one line

#make && make modules_install install

the install command copies the kernel image to /boot, as well as the system map and all appropriate symlinks. It's very cool.

Hi, i did the same thing as you, i have the same problem!!!

For USB i found the solution :
http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html
or
http://www.linux-sxs.org/upgrading/migration26.html

But for IPTables, nothing!
Please help

I tried to disable lines in /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup & ifup-post every lines where appear "iptables", but still doesn' work.
It seems to me that my RedHat with kernel 2.4.20 had scripts for firewall and packet filtering, and tries to use it with the 2.6 kernel.

I disabled everything but "ethernet support" in xconfig, and my network still works, and also tried to make oldconfig (from config of the last kernel) and still the same problem.

Does somebody knows how to disable firewall support / packet filtering in RedHat 9 systems?

Thanks a lot!

yes, i'm a

I presume you have since discovered this (being 3 months ago) but since I was just searching for the same thing... the answer I found (somewhere on this site) was

chkconfig --level 35 iptables off

which has done the trick for me.