I've just upgrade from Mandrake 10.0 to 10.1 and I'm having trouble compiling a custom kernel.
I require a couple of device drivers ITE8212 and SATA_SIL to be compiled into the kernel as well as RAID 1 support so that I can can run the system from a set of raid disks. the boot partition is off course a non raid disk.

However I get strange dependency messages on the "Make Install" command that its looking for modules that are now meant to be part of the kernel. If I remove the modules completely (just for testing the compilation) I get the same complaint. It would seem that my process for compiling is not clean.
I'm using

make mrproper
make menuconfig
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install

The error messages from the make install are:
looking for deps of module iteraid
scsi_mod
looking for deps of module scsi_mod
looking for deps of module sata_sil
no module sata_sil found for kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdkbase, aborting..

Why is it looking for this module if its actually compiled into the kernel?

Any help much appreciated.Clearly I'm doing something wrong.
David

hi rhere

instead of "make install" do the folowing

copy the kernel image
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10gm87

copy the System.map file
cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.10gm87

make an initrd image
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10gm87.img 2.6.10gm87


no this name(2.6.10gm87) that i have chosen here is for my custom kernel
ur Makefile in the kernel source should also represent the same

this from my Makefile(edit this before going for make bzImage)

VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 6
SUBLEVEL = 10
EXTRAVERSION = gm87


and after these make the required enteries in grub.conf or lilo.conf

regards

The problem appears to be in the make initrd script and I have the same problem manually - here is the error:
Looking for deps of module iteraid
scsi_mod
Looking for deps of module scsi_mod
Looking for deps of module sata_sil
No module sata_sil found for kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdkbase, aborting.
mkinitrd failed:
(mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-12mdkbase.img --ifneeded 2.6.8.1-12mdkbase)) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm line 121.
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make: *** [install] Error 2

hi there
i forgot to mention above that
after
make modules_install

try this

mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10gm91.img 2.6.10gm91

u need to use the name that u have in ur Makefile in place of 2.6.10gm91

regards

Solved: I wasn't aware that mkinitrd allowed you to put modules into the boot image. What was a bit tricky was the dual requirement to have raid1 in /etc/modules.conf as well as a /dev/md? as root mounting in /etc/fstab.
Regards