kernel question

[K.C. Chan]

Let say if you had chosen a pakage as a module, but later you want to compile in the kernel. Will make modules and make modules_install take the module out of the /lib/modules/kernel/....? Thanks.

[Bill Thorsteinson]

I don't believe it does. The modules install does a copy into the modules directory.

You have a couple of options.
Build a different version of the kernel. This will give you a different lib/modules directory. There are commands to rename the kernel version.

Rename the lib/modules directory corresponding to the new kernel you are building. Then run the modules install.
Once you are confident in your new kernel you can remove the old one.

[Mubedi Kaninda]

Michael,

As Bill indicated, make modules and make modules_install will not remove a module from /lib/module

It won't hurt you to leave it in the /lib/modules directory. If it was a module loaded at boot time and you no longer need it, remove the entry for that module from /etc/modules.conf (Caldera and SuSE use a different file) and recreate the initial ramdisk (mkinitrd for RH and Turbolinux).

Run lilo -v after that.

Hope this helps