[hsflinux] Re: Orrible bug - solved possible other solution?

[Ben Biggie]

I find this curious, because it's not a problem I experienced (I had other
ones, but that's to do with my Vaio having the modem on an AMR link -
another story).
Maybe it's due to the work around I had to do in order to get an initial ram
disk built for my AMD kernel. Here's the problem (as I saw it) and the work
around I found - see if it has any bearing on your issue.
1) The problem: Having done make bzImage (for AMD), make bzImage, make
modules and make modules_install, I was no longer able to do mkinitrd. The
reason? Loop.o now had unresolved symbols - it had overwritten the standard
(Intel 586) one.
2) The (possible) solution. I tar-red /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6mdk and then
mv'd it to /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6amd (and then linked
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-6amd to /usr/src/linux) - and also changed the minor
version name in /usr/src/linux/Makefile to match - i.e. 6-amd).
make install_modules then created a new tree - /lib/modules/2.4.18-6amd.

Hope this helps - (constructive) criticism welcome.

Ben Biggie