[H-GEN] Modules under RedHat

[Jason Parker]

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Geoffrey D. Bennett wrote:
> Are you sure you are booting off the same kernel that you compiled the
> modules for?  Are you running depmod -a?  Just some wild stabs in the
> dark here -- I've never had any trouble with kernel modules.

Yes, I am running the same kernel, and yes, I am running depmod -a:
The timestamp on /vmlinuz is correct, and it's depmod -a that is
bitching about unresolved symbols.  So there.  :)

> I'm not sure how using Debian would help here.  Red Hat and Debian
> both use the same Linux kernel (maybe different versions, but
> instructions on how to compile it correctly shouldn't differ).

Well, like *duh*.  :)  It's just that I have *never* had this sort of
problem with debian modules, where I used them exclusively (ie
**everything** was a module:  if I could have, even the ELF binary
format, and the root partition would have been modules[1].)

Sent to general to help clear up any further misunderstanding about
the nature of the problem.

Jason "Where's Lord Baahl when you need him?" Parker
ph330812 at student.uq.edu.au

[1] : You *can* make the root filesystem a module, but I had so little
      ram I considered it to be useless.  You had to boot off a
      ramdisk or msome such.

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