Dear all,
i am compiling kernel-2.4.32 with i386 processor with wirless lan and all
other facilites, it will compaile in make ,make dep, make menuconfig but i
going to intall with make install, the initrd is missing the following
error is displayed , please help on this issue.
warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.32 bzImage /bala/linux-2.4.32/System.map ""
+ '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']'
+ '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']'
+ exec /sbin/installkernel 2.4.32 bzImage /bala/linux-2.4.32/System.map ''
depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.32/modules.dep for writing
/lib/modules/2.4.32 is not a directory.
mkinitrd failed
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/bala/linux-2.4.32/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [install] Error 2
the issue is very urgent , u please clear the doute asap .
thanks & regards
balamurugan.j
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 [email protected] wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> i am compiling kernel-2.4.32 with i386 processor with wirless lan and all
> other facilites, it will compaile in make ,make dep, make menuconfig but i
> going to intall with make install, the initrd is missing the following
> error is displayed , please help on this issue.
>
> warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.32 bzImage /bala/linux-2.4.32/System.map ""
> + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']'
> + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']'
> + exec /sbin/installkernel 2.4.32 bzImage /bala/linux-2.4.32/System.map ''
> depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.32/modules.dep for writing
> /lib/modules/2.4.32 is not a directory.
> mkinitrd failed
Yes. No modules directory for this kernel version...
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/bala/linux-2.4.32/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> the issue is very urgent , u please clear the doute asap .
>
> thanks & regards
> balamurugan.j
>
For linux-2.4.x, you need ....
`make`
`make modules`
`make modules_install`
`make install`
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13.4 on an i686 machine (5589.54 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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