yperionas
January 17th, 2011, 04:23 PM
Hello everybody, thank you for reading this post hoping that you bring along some very helpful ideas.
I am trying to compile and install a new kernel. I have downloaded the 2.6.37 version from kernel.org and I have extracted it in usr/src/linux-2.6.37/ folder.
I have tried to compile it and install it according to the instruction given in the following web site and which I found very useful: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/K...WTO.html#INTRO (http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html#INTRO)
Nevertheless, I am encountering some problems during the make install modules process as I get some warnings (i.e. The title of this post).
I thought to ignore the warnings and continue by copying the modules in /lib/modules/linux-2.6.37 but this is not possible since at that directory there is no folder created with the new kernel I am trying to install and thus I get a msg saying: FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.37/modules.dep.
The warning message: WARNING: modpost: found X section mismatch(es) suggests to run a make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y.
At the moment I am running a make again and saving the output to a file so that I can see later on what are the mismatches that I get. In any case we are talking about more than 50 mismatches so I am wondering if these mismatches are not that serious and the problem I cannot install and copy the modules is something else that I am missing as I am new to Linux.
I am trying to compile and install a new kernel. I have downloaded the 2.6.37 version from kernel.org and I have extracted it in usr/src/linux-2.6.37/ folder.
I have tried to compile it and install it according to the instruction given in the following web site and which I found very useful: http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/K...WTO.html#INTRO (http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html#INTRO)
Nevertheless, I am encountering some problems during the make install modules process as I get some warnings (i.e. The title of this post).
I thought to ignore the warnings and continue by copying the modules in /lib/modules/linux-2.6.37 but this is not possible since at that directory there is no folder created with the new kernel I am trying to install and thus I get a msg saying: FATAL: could not load /lib/modules/2.6.37/modules.dep.
The warning message: WARNING: modpost: found X section mismatch(es) suggests to run a make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y.
At the moment I am running a make again and saving the output to a file so that I can see later on what are the mismatches that I get. In any case we are talking about more than 50 mismatches so I am wondering if these mismatches are not that serious and the problem I cannot install and copy the modules is something else that I am missing as I am new to Linux.