Axp-Software Archive
Re: Warning upon boot - incorrect kernel

Subject: Re: Warning upon boot - incorrect kernel
From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Wed Jan 5 17:52:56 2000


On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Azman Salleh wrote:

>
> Every time I boot up my Alpha, I get these warnings(from
> var/log/messages):
>
> Jan 6 09:19:42 nti15 depmod: can't open /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep
> Jan 6 09:19:42 nti15 rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies failed
>
> also this msg:
> Warning: /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel version.
>
> Indeed there's only /lib/modules/2.2.5-16 on the system, no 2.2.12.
>
> Could it be caused by fact that I used boot image from a wrong version
> when
> I installed REdhat6.0 (Hedwig). My uname -a produces 2.2.12

Right, I assume you got the image from elsewhere. Neither of these is a
serious problem. If you compile you own you'll be left with a System.map
file you can put in /boot to get off the second message.
 
> Can I like, replace some files, to get rid of this warning?

Again, there's not serious. Nothing to worry about.

> thank you,
> azman
>

--rdp

Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org



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