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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-IN link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>make defconfig takes default options present in config file at ( arch/x86/configs/”) of particular architecture say <a href="http://lxr.linux.no/linux+*/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig">x86_64_defconfig</a> which is present in source code. Out of these modules you might not be needing all. So try using make oldconfig instead of make defconfig.<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Pritam Bankar [mailto:pritambankar1988@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 08 November 2011 00:35<br><b>To:</b> kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: building linux kernel 3.0.4<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 07-11-2011 23:15, ashish anand wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi ,<br>I am using vmware on windows 7 and try to built kernel version 3.0.4 .<br>I am following this procedure <br><br>make defconfig <br>make<br>make modules <br>make modules_install<br>make install<br>Every step succeds except make install<br>Its throwing me following message<br><br><b>sh /home/ashu/linux-3.0.4/linux-3.0.4/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 3.0.4 arch/x86/boot/bzImage \<br> System.map "/boot"<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module fuse<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module sunrpc<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ip6t_REJECT<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module nf_conntrack_ipv6<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ip6table_filter<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ip6_tables<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ipv6<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module uinput<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_ens1371<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module gameport<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_rawmidi<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_ac97_codec<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ac97_bus<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_seq<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_seq_device<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_pcm<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module ppdev<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_timer<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module parport_pc<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module parport<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module microcode<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module soundcore<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module vmware_balloon<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module snd_page_alloc<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module pcnet32<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module mii<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module i2c_piix4<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module i2c_core<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module mptspi<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module mptscsih<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module mptbase<br>ERROR: modinfo: could not find module scsi_transport_spi<br><br></b>I wonder if my Vmware workstation is creating a problem?<br><br>Or <br>If I am using make defconfig why are these modules not bulit.<br>Please help I am stuck.<br><br>Thanks and Regards<br>Ashish Anand<br>"Growth Should Not Kill Innovation"<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Kernelnewbies mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org">Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies">http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal>make defconfig takes default options present in config file of particular architecture say x86_64 which is present in source code. Out of these modules you might not be needing all. So try using make oldconfig. <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>