Captains log; stardate Sunday 18 January 2004 04:02 pm, Lieutenant Michael R. reported that.......

> I had the same problem, with the same kernel, switch to a different
> kernel and it worked.
>
> Venkat Venkataraju wrote:
>> Hi genkernel fails on make modules. i deleted the entire source
>> directory and emergerd it again, but it still fails.
>>
>> GenKernel v3.0.1_beta4-3
>> * ARCH: x86
>> * KERNEL VER: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5
>> * kernel: configuring source
>> * kernel: running mrproper
>> * kernel: using config from /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.4
>> * kernel: running oldconfig
>> * kernel: running clean
>> * kernel: Making dependencies for linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5
>> * kernel: Starting compile of linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 bzImage
>> * kernel: Starting compile of linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 modules
>> * gen_die(): compile of modules failed
>>
>> Any help appriciated
>>
>> -V-
>>

Or you can build your kernel manually, its not that difficult, especially if you use
--makemenuconfig or whatever the option is in genkernel to get a list of options to enabled /
disable / modulize in the kernel. All it does after that is the equiv of "make dep && make bzImage
modules modules_install". I've seen quite a few of these kinds of posts (both in newsgroups and
forums) by people using genkernel, and whenever I / we get them to build the kernel manually, they
never have any problems, nor do they have to switch what sources their using.

Genkernel is wothless when you really get down to it. All it does is take away you having to type
one line of commands, and give you the impression that its saving you time.

My first install of Gentoo I used genkernel and immediately didn't like the way it worked. As soon
as the station was up and running I rm -rf'd the .config file inside /usr/src/linux and did
everything by hand. After that, my kernel was a great deal faster, and nearly half the size of the
one by genkernel (ALL of my hardware was working, unlike most done by genkernel).

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Shan Destromp
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Sent: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 @ 13.53.10 EST
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