kernel stuff

jack mendez wiler1 at earthlink.net
Mon May 5 14:20:05 EDT 2003


okay here is my problem
my kernel does not support bzimage or it says that it can uncompress the
bzimage how do i fix this
when i try to use zimage it says the image is too big and to use zimage or
modules.
i think, most of the stuff i have in the kernel are loaded as modules anyway.
At 10:20 AM 5/5/03 -0700, you wrote:
>I see your problem now. Same mistake I made the first time.
>Do make modules_install note the underline character between the words
>modules and install.
>
>With alsa, do make install once the modules are built. This will place them
>where they belong.
>
>Justin
>
>
>"jack mendez" <wiler1 at earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> a few questions
>> so my system is back running 2.4.18
>> someone mentioned reading the documentation for 2.4.20
>> well, i read the README looked at the Changes file and i didn't find
>> anything about the new kernel or where the modules are stored.
>> so i am back to a fresh system
>> make mrproper
>> make oldconfig
>> make dep
>> make zImage
>> make modules
>> make modules install
>> i assume that is what i need to do
>>
>> as far as backing up my old vmlinuz file can i just rename it?
>> how is that done
>>
>> this all assumes that speakup  and the modifications from wpi are patched
>> properly which they did the last time.
>> in adition i compiled alsa-driver-0.9.3 and it appeared to create modules
>> for individual cards in a sperate directory, do i just copy these into
>> /lib/modules/2.4.x/kernel/driver/what-goes-here?
>>
>>
>> thanks for all your help so far.
>> Jack
>>
>>
>>
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