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jinn

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Registered: 2005-12-10

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manual kernel compilation > no /lib/modules/ ?

The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is:      2.6.19.1     2006-12-11 19:40 UTC     F     V           C     Changelog

The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is:      2.6.20-rc2-mm1     2006-12-28 10:05 UTC           V                 Changelog

Since the mm kernel havent been updated for a long time I decided to download the kernel and the patch and install it manually.

1. I downloaded the 2.6.19.1 kernel, and the 2.6.20-rc2-mm1 patch.
2. Extracted the kernel to /usr/src/mmpatch
3. extracted the patch to /usr/src/mmpatch
4. cd /usr/src/mmpatch
5. patch -p1 < 2.6.20-rc20-mm1

After running the fift command, I get different error messages, and alot of hunks gets failed, also not finding some files. What am i doing wrong?

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xerverius

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Registered: 2004-11-02

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Re: manual kernel compilation > no /lib/modules/ ?

You shoul patch against the 2.6.19 kernel.

http://kernel.org/patchtypes/pre.html

jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: manual kernel compilation > no /lib/modules/ ?

Yes, I tried that as well, I still got error messages and files that dont exists.. Gonna try it now again just in case ..

--edit

Tried it again.. same error..

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xerverius

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Re: manual kernel compilation > no /lib/modules/ ?

Then you should probably download 2.6.19, apply 2.6.20-rc2 en then 2.6.20-rc2-mm1.

jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: manual kernel compilation > no /lib/modules/ ?

That made the trick. Thanks.

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jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: manual kernel compilation > no /lib/modules/ ?

I have another problem now. The custom kernel source wiki is very old (from 2005) and arch have changed alot since then. Thats why i did not follow it and just did the way i did when I used to run gentoo.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ker … rom_Source

i manually downloaded and applied the mm patch. Compiled it with:
make & make modules install

When it wanted to install the modules to /lib/modules/
it fails..  Any ideas why or what i can do?

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Asaru

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Registered: 2006-05-06

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Re: manual kernel compilation > no /lib/modules/ ?

make && make modules_install

the "_" is missing

jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: manual kernel compilation > no /lib/modules/ ?

yeah.. thanks I just noticed that myself.

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