[CLUE-Tech] kernel compilation

Dave Anselmi anselmi at americanisp.net
Sun Dec 9 20:46:08 MST 2001


Dave Price wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:13:58PM -0000, jason at matchingmoms.com wrote:
> > I'm trying to attach to my kernel the modules necessary to support a CD-RW.
> > I used make xconfig, found the necessary modules, clicked 'M', made dep,
> > clean, bzImage, and so on.  The result was a new file:
> <snip>
> >
> > insmod: scsi_mod: no module by that name found
> > insmod: sg: no module by that name found
> > insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found
> > insmod: loop: no module by that name found
> > insmod: iso9660: no module by that name found
> > insmod: ide-scsi: no module by that name found
> >
> did you make modules, and make modules_install?

Might also be a good idea to run depmod -ae.  You did run lilo (as root, from a
command prompt like any other program), right?  That's how the new kernel gets
mapped into the boot loader.

Dave





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