Kernel compile problems

Robert Dege rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Wed Jul 9 08:43:56 EDT 2003


I'm trying to compile the 2.4.21 kernel on RedHat 7.3.  When I get to the
part of make modules_install (or make install for that matter), it craps
out in the end when it executes the depmod.

Every module that I have selected in the config reports unresolved
symbols.  I even tried previous configs that compiled successfully in the
past, but the same problem exists.

Any suggestions??

# make modules_install
...
...
...
if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map  2.4.21; fi
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o
depmod:         blk_ioctl
depmod:         register_disk
depmod:         __wake_up
depmod:         __generic_copy_from_user
depmod:         schedule
depmod:         __release_region
depmod:         check_disk_change
depmod:         blk_cleanup_queue
depmod:         tq_immediate
depmod:         kmalloc
depmod:         __wait_on_buffer
depmod:         end_that_request_last
depmod:         free_dma
depmod:         get_options
depmod:         __get_free_pages
depmod:         vfree
depmod:         boot_cpu_data
depmod:         unregister_blkdev
depmod:         enable_hlt
depmod:         permission
depmod:         free_irq
depmod:         remove_wait_queue
depmod:         getblk
depmod:         high_memory
depmod:         register_blkdev
depmod:         panic
depmod:         ll_rw_block
depmod:         end_that_request_first
depmod:         free_pages
depmod:         bh_task_vec
depmod:         add_blkdev_randomness
depmod:         request_dma
depmod:         blk_size
depmod:         del_timer
depmod:         kfree
depmod:         __run_task_queue


Dege

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