I've got a serious problem!

bonedaddyhimself · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 101

My /lib/modules only has a 2.4.22 directory. I upgraded recently from 2.4.22 to 2.6.1. Then I moved to 2.6.4-rc1. Everything to seems to work ok but Alsa stopped working. So I lsmod and nothing shows up but alsa loads. I compiled Alsa and my sblive into my kernel. I re-compiled with Alsa as a module and still not luck.
What really worries me is that when I try to modprobe my sound card, I get an error stating that 'FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory' I'm now using 2.6.4-rc1.

Have I royaly screwed myself? All of my errors are below:

root@dune bonedaddy # modules-update Warning: could not generate etc/modprobe.conf!

root@dune bonedaddy # lsmod
Module Size Used by

Cheers,

bd

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:06 am Post subject: Re: I've got a serious problem!

merclude · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:48 am Post subject:

did you do a "make modules_install" when you compiled the kernel ? this sounds like a problem i had once when i forgot to do so.
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bonedaddyhimself · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 101

Well, both of you were right.

uname -a tells me that I'm running 2.6.1 yet only 2.6.4-rc1 is in my boot config and grub is pointing to 2.6.4-rc1.
What can I do to correct this?

I had previously used make install so it would place all of the files into boot for me.

I ran make modules_install and I now have a /lib/modules/2.6.4-rc1

What should I do? I'm still having the same problem. Apparently something is not linked correctly because:

root@dune modules # modprobe snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject:

Did you "mount /boot" before running "make install" and editing /boot/grub/grub.conf ?

bonedaddyhimself · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 101

cyrillic,

Once again you were correct. Using make install and not mounting /boot screwed everything up.

All is well now and finally everything is working! Sound, atapi cd/dvd burning with k3b.

root@dune bonedaddy # uname -a
Linux dune 2.6.4-rc1 #3 Sat Mar 20 21:16:21 EST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Cheers!

bd

2gen · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 89

will i not faced this kind of problem if i have boot created under root rather than by it's own partition as per the install manual?

bonedaddyhimself · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 101

If you follow the Gentoo install instructions you should be fine. I read on a post here somewhere that you could simply do a 'make install' and all files would be copied to /boot with the appropriate file names given to the kernel and system.map. Problem was that I didn't mount /boot first with this command, nor did it create the modules directory in /lib/modules. That kept my sound from working and also led me to believe that I was using kernel 2.6.4-rc1 when I wasn't

If you're like me and still a n00b, stick to the manual. I didn't and got burned for it.

bd