Problems Building Kernel 2.4.9

[Bob Edwards]

"Donovan J. Edye" wrote:
> 
> G'Day All,
> 
> I have decided to take the plunge and build my very first kernel. I
> downloaded the source to 2.4.9 and then used make menuconfig to set what I
> wanted. Followed this with:
> 
> make dep
> make clean
> make modules
> make bzImage
> make bzlilo
> 
> However when when my Debian system comes up (well it doesn't) I get the
> error modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-1. I have physically
> searhed the disk and cannot find a module by that name. It appears that it
> may be related to "Packet Filtering" on the network page as used by tcpdump
> when it (Packet Filtering) is installed as a module. Well it is not
> installed as a module, so I am now rather lost. Can anyone point me in the
> right direction please?
> 
> TIA
> 
> --Donovan

You also need to do a "make modules-install" to move the modules to the
place where modprobe and insmod etc. look for them.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.