modules in Initramfs

[beyond.hack]

thanks for your sir,
but one more thing i like to know is that if all the modules needed by the
kernel are in `initramfs` image then what is the need of the
/lib/modules/<kernel version>?? won`t it be redundant??



On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, beyond.hack <beyond.hack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > hello experts,,
> > I am on Fedora 16 and My current kernel is as per the uname -r output
> > is 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686.PAE
> >
> > I am compiling a kernel 3.4.1 and after the compilation the bzimage and
> > initramfs are successfully generated..
> > then doing a
> > #make install
> > is giving error like this::
> >
> > sh-4.2# make install
> > sh /usr/local/src/linux-3.4.1/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 3.4.1
> > arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
> > System.map "/boot"
> > WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/3.4.1: No such file or
> > directory
>
> maybe you forgot to do "make modules" followed by "make
> modules_install" after generating kernel image?
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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