Re: help

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 14:47 5-6-2001 +0200, robert.gehr@web2cad.de wrote:
>Hello there
>
>I just tried to install XFS support here on a machine.
>I patched the kernel sources 2.4.3 without a hitch and compiled the beast,
>even installed the lvm stuff to work around some error make was spitting up
>when I tried to build xfsprogs
>I installed modutils 2.4.6 and all the other goodies you recommend.
>
>I can boot my system all right but never get those modules loaded I usually
>use e.g. network drivers etc.
>I always get: "unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.3-XFS/kernel/xxxx"
>
>I checked out those mailinglist archives to no avail so what is there to
>do.
>Before I was running kernel 2.4.4 on that machine and had no trouble at all
>with them modules and still have none when I boot that kernel only when I
>boot that patched XFS kernel I get those lovely messages
>
>Ever heard of something like that before??????

Yes save your .config file in tree you are working in.
make mrproper
copy your .config back
make oldconfig

And try again.
You have been bitten by broken Makfiles. This is a general 2.4 problem.

Bye
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.