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SubjectRe: Make modules_install doesn't create /lib/modules/$version
Rob Landley wrote:

> I've installed -test3, -test4, and now -test5, and each time make
> modules_install died with the following error:
>
> Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready
> sh arch/i386/boot/install.sh 2.6.0-test5 arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map ""
> /lib/modules/2.6.0-test5 is not a directory.
> mkinitrd failed
> make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
> I had to create the directory in question by hand, and then run it again, at
> which point it worked.
>
> Am I the only person this is happening for? (Bog standard Red Hat 9 system
> otherwise. With Rusty's modutils...)
>

I didn't see that here with Red Hat 9 system and 2.6.0-test3.

Maybe you can greb the used scripts to see which one does make (or test
the existence of) the directory.

I now use the modutils package from rawhide. It also handles the
creation of the new /etc/modprobe.conf file.

Bas.



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