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 FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory find: `/lib/modules/3.4.1/': No such file or directory F: No modules.builtin.bin and modules.builtin found! E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory find: `/lib/modules/3.4.1/': No such file or directory find: `/lib/modules/3.4.1/': No such file or directory find: `/lib/modules/3.4.1/': No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.4.1/modules.dep: No such file or directory sh-4.2# 2.Do all the modules needed by the kernel(specified at the configure time) are built into the initramfs compressed image?? thanks in advance...plz. bear with me if this is a real simple thing...but I am just starting out.... Regards