[lug] Unresolved Symbols

[D. Stimits]

Justin wrote:
> 
> This all started when I was uprading my RH 7.1 box to kernel 2.4.5
> yesterday. I compiled fine and got everything setup and relinked in
> /boot. I also (this is where I boneheaded it up) removed the
> /boot/initrd.img thinking my system here at work was ide and not scsi.
> Alas, it is a scsi machine and now it wouldn't boot up, kernel panic
> because the boot device wasn't mounted. I tried making a new initrd
> with 'mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.5.img 2.4.5' but I got the error "All
> of your loopback devices are in use!". I tried loading the module for
> loop with insmod loop, but this is where I started running into all
> the unresolved symbol errors. At this point I removed all the 2.4.5
> stuff and reinstalled the stock RH 7.1 kernel packages (kernel,
> -headers, and -source). Even now though whenever I reboot to the
> original kernel I still get the unresolved symbol errors, but now I
> get them for everything, ugh. Any idea where I should start?
> 
> Justin
> 
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Did you move your old modules to a backup location prior to doing "make
modules_install"? Did you copy your new System.map to
/boot/System.map-someversion (where "someversion" basically matches the
format of "uname -r")?

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com