[mythtv-users] Recompiling Redhat kernel

[Ray Olszewski]

Paul -- From what you wrote, here and in your later messages, your problem 
appears to be unrelated to MythTV even remotely (for example, by way of 
BTTV), but seems to be that your newness to Linux leaves you unfamiliar 
with the procedure for compiling kernels. For non-Myth learning of that 
sort, you might find a genreal-purpose Linux help list more useful than a 
MythTV one. The one I know is linux-newbie at vger.kernel.org (a majordomo 
list; join the usual way), though there are many ... including, I am sure, 
some specific to Red Hat.

For now ...

At 08:01 AM 4/15/2003 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
[...]
>>4. Am I correct in assuming that before you did whatever you did, "make 
>>modules" worked properly, including compiling the older bttv module? 
>>(More generally, you have compiled the kernel itself ("make bzImage", 
>>usually) succesfully, right? So you've gone through the preliminary steps 
>>in /usr/src/<kernel-name>/README?)
>
>There's not much relevant in that README afaics.
>
>The kernel itself compiles absolutely fine (and boots as far as saying 
>that the modules don't match the kernel version). I've never got a 'make 
>modules' to work properly.
>
>I've been following the instructions on 
>"http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-2.html"

This description of what you did is a bit hard to interpret, for several 
reasons.

First, as to README, if you think there isn't much relevant in it, you 
didn't read it very thoroughly. Start at the part headed "INSTALLING the 
Kernel" and read on. Much of the material is similar to that in the URL you 
cite, but the procedure described in README really is the bedrock one to 
check your work against.

Second, if you are really following the instructions at the URL you quote 
above, how did you ever get to the point where you boot the new kernel? In 
those instructions (both the quick and the detailed versions), installing 
the kernel and running lilo occur *after* the make_modules step, which 
fails for you. In any case, I'd suggest you try the sequence "For the 
Impatient" (section 2.3) exactly as written. If it fails, report (here or 
on a more appropriate list) the exact sequence of steps you followed.

My guess at this point is that you are skipping some required step in the 
compile process ... but without a description of what you actually did, 
trying to name it is just a guessing game. The compiler errors you quoted 
look to me like you are missing some #include files (or are looking at the 
wrong set of #include files). This *might* mean you need to install some 
something_or_other-dev RPM or it could mean you skipped an early step in 
the compilation procedure.