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  From: Mark <markc@trinity.sa.edu.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
        LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:19:32 +0930

Re: 2.4.7 Kernel Modules Problem

Hi Alan,

have you ever read the kernel compilation docs?  I think you will find it 
mentioned there.

Mark Collis
Trinity College


At 16:13 26/07/01 +0930, Alan Kennington wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:40:47PM +0930, Toby Corkindale wrote:
> > Hiya
> >
> > aren't you supposed to make the dependancies *after* making the config?
> >
> > ie.
> > make mrproper
> > make menuconfig
> > make dep
> > make clean
> > make bzImage
> > make modules
> > etc...?
> >
>
>I've never seen "make mrproper".
>But I'm sure you're right that the poster's
>order is wrong. I would go further and say that
>the "make clean" should go first if anything
>at all has been done with the kernel source
>as downloaded. Hence:
>
>make clean      [if not the first attempt]
>make menuconfig
>make dep
>make bzImage
>make modules
>make modules_install
>[copy and rename bzImage and System.map to /boot]
>modify /etc/lilo.conf
>run lilo
>reboot
>
>Cheers,
>Alan Kennington.
>
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