i think i might have messed up something while recompiling the 2.6.8.1 kernel. alot of programs won't run (in bash) with the ./ notation. i have to do $ sh file. i can't run binaries like the shogo demo but i can run firefox.

the message is typically 'permission denied' (from bash)

i guess it's coz i didn't support a.out binaries? even if that's why, thought i'd post this in case someone has a similar problem. they'll know why.

does anyone know how to compie just a single module in 2.6.x?. (assume make mrproper has been done). i ask coz the usual method of changing the SRCDIR var in the Makefile isn't really possible since that isn't really used. when i did try it (with the M= option) i got way too many errors. the steps for this would make a good tutorial since i know this is asked alot.

abs

The executable permissions are not set for that file.
Post the permissions of the files your trying to execute.

I would first suspect what michael is suggesting.
To answer your other question, I don't think you can recompile only one kernel module. You can though install modules and then have them included with the depmod command. This is common in some proprietary drivers.

actually i should have metioned this earlier. the files have executable rights for user, owner is me, group is users. does it need to have group and or world exec rights? i.e. does it have to be 555 or 755?

isn't it supposed to be possible to compile just a single kernel module? situations where u forgot to add one and have finished bzImage and modules_install and make clean; all u have left is ur config file?

ty
abs

one of the files is -r-x------ (500) and the other two are -rwxr-xr-x (755) owned by me(.users). can't run as myself or as root. getting that problem with some system binaries also, like 'watch'

This is possible but a.out binaries are fairly rare things; ELF has been far more common for quite a few years now. You can find out if a file is a.out or ELF (or what) by using the command, assuming that you can get it to work.

lol. yeah. two files were bash scripts and the other waswhen i compiled my kernel, i used march=athlon-tbird. i know it's the equivalent of i686 but aren't there synonyms that handle that?

abs

still not managed to get this working. any ideas what's causing this. i'm close to doing a re-install.

What is your output for :

cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i bin

i'm guessing u're asking about this:
#
# Executable file formats
#
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m

(sorry for the delayed reponse)

abs

According to that, you have a.out support compiled as a module. Which means you just have to load the module. I guess that should be one of these commands:
a.out binaries should work after doing that.

Hope that helps,

— Robert J. Lee

is 'modprobe' an a.out binary? or is it na elf bin? if it is a.out, then i can't load the module required to run the command that loads the module :P

ty
abs

It's an elf.
Why don't you just try it?

--Shade