Re: make modules_install fail: depmod *** Unresolved symbols

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 16:03, [e-mail] wrote:
> > 			Granada, 14-3-2002
> > 
> > Hello, I downloaded kernel 2.4.20 and compiled it sucessfully a month
> > ago without any aparent problem. Yesterday I tried to compile it again
> > in the same computer just changing a couple of small things in the
> > configuration (agpart and the network card changed from "module" to
> > "yes").
> > 
> > make dep, make bzImage and make modules went apparently well (expect for
> > a few apparently non-important warnings with bzImage of the type
> > Warning: indirect call without '*' when compiling pci-pc and apm).
> > 
> > But when I try make modules_install, I've got a lot of error messages.
> > For each module I've got one line like:
> > 
> > depmod:  *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.o
> > 
> > followed by a number of lines of the type
> > 
> > depmod:     misc_deregister
> > depmod:     __generic_copy_from_use
> > depmod:     .....
> 
> Download, compile and install Rusty's latest module-init-tools
> ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules
> 

Errr, he got 2.4.20, not 2.5.48+ ....

Miguel:  Not a real fix, but try compiling microcode.o into the
         kernel and not as a module ...

Regards,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Cape Town, South Africa