Re: [TCLUG:6968] RH 6.0 Hanging

[sos@skypoint.com (Steve Siegfried)]

Not sure what's causing your other problems, but "make xconfig" is BROKEN
in 6.0, as it leaves some stuff undefined that an identical "make config"
or "make menuconfig" will define.  This may be the cause behind why your
makes don't work properly.


Barnholtz, Brian wrote:
> 
> I have had a couple of problems with RH 6.0.  First when I boot the
> system it occasionally hangs at the finding module dependencies.  This
> occurs about every 4th reboot.  I also added a Zip drive, parallel port
> 100mb model.  I am unable to get the kernel to load the modules.  It
> seems that I have to insmod, but I am unable to do this before the
> system tries to mount the device, so it fails.  A third problem I have
> is when I try to recompile the kernel using make xconfig, everything
> works until I reach the make zImage.  This fails.  Also make bzImage
> fails, as does make modules.  Any ideas on what may be going wrong.  Is
> there an output file I can check.
> 
> Thank You
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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