First boot of 2.6.5

2004 April 29 at 04:46 » Tagged as :linux, kernel,

My first attempt at booting the 2.6.5 kernel didn't go smoothly due to a mistake I made while compiling it. I accidentally compiled ext3 and reiserfs as modules, even though some partitions were using these formats. Consequently, the kernel tried to mount an ext3 system as an ext2 and ended up corrupting that particular partition.

Thankfully, I was able to recover from this by manually running fsck. Only a few files, such as /var/log/messages and the rpm database, were damaged, but I had a backup of the latter from about a month ago while the former doesn't really matter.

After recompiling the kernel with ext3 and reiserfs included as part of the 'monolith', it booted up but none of the modules seem to get loaded.

modprobe: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented

I re-ran make modules_install and noticed a warning which i had missed earlier. It said

Warning: you may need to install module-init-tools
See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt

It was at this point that I found the networking modules weren't working either and decided to go back to 2.4.20