Re: [Xen-users] Success with RHEL 4.1 build?

[David F Barrera <dfbp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Make sure your initrd matches the kernel version that you are using.

brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:07:52AM -0600, John R. Shannon wrote:
>   
> > I had no problem building under CentOS 4.3 which is a RHEL clone. 
> > Nothing special was required. What problem are you encountering?
> >     
> Basically, the following errors at boot:
>
> Loading <module>.ko module                                                      
> <module>: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module                       
> insmod: error inserting '/lib/<module>.ko': -1 Invalid module format            
> ERROR: /bin/insmod exited normally       
>
> (Repeats for each module)
>
> This is on a Dell 380n, BTW, which comes with RHEL 4.1 compiled for
> the x86_64 arch.  I'm trying to keep these workstations as "stock" as
> possible (not a requirement, but more for reasons of time available to
> test other distros somewhat lacking).  
>
> Things I've tried:
>
> 1.  make world, etc... (per the docs)
>
> Compiles fine, initial boot is fine, module loading errors.
>
> 2. Thinking that there may be some modules necessary for the
> particular workstation I'm compiling for, I painstakingly diff'd the
> .9 and .16 .config files.  Compile errors (mostly not being able to
> find *.ko files) led me to abandon this approach after much time spent
> modifying kernel configuration params.
>
> 3.  Another post on the xen-users lists indicated that symbol-related
> errors might be due to the wrong modules being pulled into the initrd
> boot image.  So I tried the following:
>
> $ depmod -F /boot/System.map-2.6.16-xen 2.6.16-xen                              
> $ mkinitrd -o /boot/xen.img 2.6.16-xen 
>
> Same errors as above.  
>
> That's where I'm at now.  
>
>   --Brian
>
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Regards,

David F Barrera
Linux Technology Center
Systems and Technology Group, IBM

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