i have compiled the 2.4.20 kernel on my system. i've got the foll problems: 1. i have usb port on my system, but i don't use them. so i disabled the usb support. so i get the foll error while booting: "cannot initialise usb-uhci". is the above thing compulsory to be initialised? does it create any problems if it is not initialised? 2. i get the foll error on bootup: "cannot find module char-major-10.." what does the above error mean? what is it related to? what effects does it have on the system? how can i overcome the error? 3. i cannot get the system to auto-shutdown, as can be done on my default Red Hat 7.3 kernel (2.4.18-3). how do i get the kernel to do an auto-shutdown?
i'll be very grateful, if someone could help me out with the above problems
are you doing make modules make modules_install( do this only if the make modules finishes without error ) after 'make bzImage' ??
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i have compiled the 2.4.20 kernel on my system. i've got the foll problems:
- i have usb port on my system, but i don't use
them. so i disabled the usb support. so i get the foll error while booting: "cannot initialise usb-uhci". is the above thing compulsory to be initialised? does it create any problems if it is not initialised? 2. i get the foll error on bootup: "cannot find module char-major-10.." what does the above error mean? what is it related to? what effects does it have on the system? how can i overcome the error? 3. i cannot get the system to auto-shutdown, as can be done on my default Red Hat 7.3 kernel (2.4.18-3). how do i get the kernel to do an auto-shutdown?
i'll be very grateful, if someone could help me out with the above problems --
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-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in]On Behalf Of T Roy Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:21 AM To: spradnyesh@gmx.net; GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] help required with kernel compiling
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are you doing make modules make modules_install( do this only if the make modules finishes without error ) after 'make bzImage' ??
Hi, There is one more step needed to be carried out somewhere in between, not sure where...I think before "make modules". you need to say "make mrproper" also in case such errors come up. HTH
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i have compiled the 2.4.20 kernel on my system. i've got the foll problems:
- i have usb port on my system, but i don't use
them. so i disabled the usb support. so i get the foll error while booting: "cannot initialise usb-uhci". is the above thing compulsory to be initialised? does it create any problems if it is not initialised? 2. i get the foll error on bootup: "cannot find module char-major-10.." what does the above error mean? what is it related to? what effects does it have on the system? how can i overcome the error? 3. i cannot get the system to auto-shutdown, as can be done on my default Red Hat 7.3 kernel (2.4.18-3). how do i get the kernel to do an auto-shutdown?
i'll be very grateful, if someone could help me out with the above problems
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, K i r @ n G h a g wrote:
There is one more step needed to be carried out somewhere in between, not sure where...I think before "make modules". you need to say "make mrproper" also in case such errors come up.
You've gotta be kidding. make mrproper will blow away your configuration. This should only be done if you're a kernel maintainer/packager, and always before doing make config.
hi,
make clean make mrproper make xconfig/menuconfig/config (read EACH section carefully) make dep make bzImage make modules make modules install
the usb-uhci thing is not so critical.. the root cause of all problems is not doing the configs properly ..
regards,
Ajay
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:00, K i r @ n G h a g wrote:
GLUG Meeting on 13th July, 4pm at KReSIT, IIT Campus, Powai.
-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in]On Behalf Of T Roy Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:21 AM To: spradnyesh@gmx.net; GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] help required with kernel compiling
GLUG Meeting on 13th July, 4pm at KReSIT, IIT Campus, Powai.
are you doing make modules make modules_install( do this only if the make modules finishes without error ) after 'make bzImage' ??
Hi, There is one more step needed to be carried out somewhere in between, not sure where...I think before "make modules". you need to say "make mrproper" also in case such errors come up. HTH
Thanks and Regards, Kiran Ghag Software Engineer @ Patni Computers, India Work Phone: +91 (22) 2829 1454 Extension 5236 Web Page: http://kiran7.freeservers.com http://kiran7.freeservers.com/
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Thread root follows...
i have compiled the 2.4.20 kernel on my system. i've got the foll problems:
- i have usb port on my system, but i don't use
them. so i disabled the usb support. so i get the foll error while booting: "cannot initialise usb-uhci". is the above thing compulsory to be initialised? does it create any problems if it is not initialised? 2. i get the foll error on bootup: "cannot find module char-major-10.." what does the above error mean? what is it related to? what effects does it have on the system? how can i overcome the error? 3. i cannot get the system to auto-shutdown, as can be done on my default Red Hat 7.3 kernel (2.4.18-3). how do i get the kernel to do an auto-shutdown?
i'll be very grateful, if someone could help me out with the above problems
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:55:05PM +0530, Pradnyesh Sawant wrote:
i have compiled the 2.4.20 kernel on my system. i've got the foll problems:
- i have usb port on my system, but i don't use them. so i disabled the usb
support. so i get the foll error while booting: "cannot initialise usb-uhci". is the above thing compulsory to be initialised? does it create any problems if it is not initialised?
Your hadrware detection daemon (kudzu) will detect the USB device and it will try to configure it. You are getting the error because you haven't copiled the support for USB. It should be safe to ignore this. To get rid of the errors configure kudzu to ignore USB.
- i get the foll error on bootup: "cannot find module char-major-10.."
what does the above error mean? what is it related to? what effects does it have on the system? how can i overcome the error?
These sort of errors are reported when the kernel does a modprobe for a missing module. Can you quote the exact error? Because I suspect the error could be something like
cannot find module char-major-10-xxx
where xxx is the minor number of the device.
Type the following command to get the list of all the devices with major number 10 along with thier minor numbers.
ls -l /dev/ | grep 10,
And now you can find out which driver is missing.
If this device happens to be one of "agpgart" you'll not be able to run X, if it is "psaux" then your PS/2 mouse won't work, if it is "rtc" or anything else there shouldn't be any problems.
- i cannot get the system to auto-shutdown, as can be done on my default Red
Hat 7.3 kernel (2.4.18-3). how do i get the kernel to do an auto-shutdown?
i'll be very grateful, if someone could help me out with the above problems
Do you mean "auto power off"? I am not really sure, enabling some "Power management support" options may do the trick.
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