Other Help Topics :: problems with new kernel and modules

Guys, this has nothing to do with DSL but instead a custom remastering project and is therefore being moved.

hi ~thc.

thanks for trying to help me!!!
what do you mean when you write about "remastering /lib/modules" ?
well, i compiled a new kernel and the modules for it. i installed them on my desktop machine and copied the /lib/modules/new_kernel_version directory to the /lib/modules directory inside the dsl-tree, before i created the image. and i copied the necessary modules (from lib/modules/new_kernel_version into the new initrd (called epiart24.gz).
so the second initrd looks like the original one, except the new cloop.o under modules/ and usbcore.o, usb-ehci.o... under modules/scsi/.
i didn't touch anything else, except the linuxrc script, where i commented out all the >/dev/null 's for debugging purposes. the kernel config changes don't touch anything that has to do with initrd or filesystems. i've just thrown out a lot of modules for hardware that i don't need.
i think it's not that the kernel doesn't like the initrd-bootup phase, because it loads successfully and the initrd is found too. i'm just curious where all these symbol errors come from and why this damn usb-ohci modules doesn't want to load. but maybe i'm just making a stupid mistake during compilation. it's like "you can't see the forest, because there are so many trees", if you know what i mean. i did it again and again, checked the compiler versions, my scripts (to copy the kernel, modules, compile the cloop driver, make the isos, install to the stick...) ... and so on. over and over again. but i didn't find any bugs. i'm very frustrated at the moment.

greetings

mark

Mark, I'm really hip shooting here since I was never even able to recompile the kernel without any modifications at all and get it to work, but...

Did you apply the knoppix patch found in the repository? Not sure if that changes anything but the kernel does get patched a little bit. the .config is in the ftp site as well.

hi.

yes i used the "knoppix-kernel.patch. the kernel works, but the damn modules are making problems and i don't know why.

greetings

mark

hello.

one problem solved:
the reason wy the icd-cd module couldn't be loaded at bootup was that it depends on cdrom.o. if cdrom.o is loaded before the icd-cd.o module is loaded then there aren't any errors.
but there is still the problem that the usb-stick can't be mounted although i compiled sd_mod and all necessary filesystems into the kernel.
any ideas for a solution?

greetings

mark

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