On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Pravinkumar Chavan pravinkumar.chavan@enrouteinc.com wrote:
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Please:
1. Do *not* top post 2. Do trim your quotes to relevant pieces of text that you are responding to. 3. Use inter leaved responses
For help on all of the above see the following guidelines - they are applicable to any mailing list.
This is great PDF presentation put together by Shakti Kannan an active LUG member in many ILUGs. http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf
A couple of others: http://kandalaya.org/guidelines.html http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
root@pravin-P5GZ-MX:/opt/linux-2.6.35/usr# update-initramfs -u update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
( I think this has updated the initramfs for my ubuntu host)
root@pravin-P5GZ-MX:/opt/linux-2.6.35/usr# update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.35-1-686 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-1-686 grep: /boot/config-2.6.35-1-686: No such file or directory WARNING: missing /lib/modules/2.6.35-1-686 Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image! WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.35-1-686: No such file or directory FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.35-1-686/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
root@pravin-P5GZ-MX:/opt/linux-2.6.35/usr# update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.35 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35 grep: /boot/config-2.6.35: No such file or directory WARNING: missing /lib/modules/2.6.35 Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image! WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.35: No such file or directory FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.35/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
List the steps you have undertaken to compile the kernel and it's modules.
From above, I suspect you have not built the modules or not installed
them. The kernel modules are installed under
/lib/modules/<kernel version>
For an overview of compiling and installing Linux kernel see: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/compiling-linux-kernel-26.html
HTH, -- Arun Khan