Please help / suggest

[Praseen Preman]

Hi Kernel Gurus,
              I am Praseen, a linux kernel enthusiast. I am currently faced
with a
few issues while actually inserting some rudimentary modules into the linux
kernel and
recompiling and running it.

I am currently using the Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS kernel version
2.6.24-26. I wanted to insmod and modprobe a few of my own hand written
rudimentary modules into the kernel. I succeeded in my above venture,
but with a few unwanted side effects.

The kernel version 2.6.24-26 shipped with the Ubuntu Heron LTS was not
allowing me to insert a module into it, compiled from the 2.6.24
kernel source tree. So I recompiled the sources for the 2.6.24 kernel
sources and booted into it using grub. This time around I was
successful in inserting the kernel modules, but modprobe failed
though. The real issue I was facing as that, my nVidia drivers and
creative sound card drivers failed to work at first for the 2.6.24
version kernel and soon for the shipped 2.6.24-26 kernel too it failed
to work. Following this X windows too ceased to work properly for both
the kernels.What  isthe best way to solve and avoid such a scenario.
I have a hunch that the since both the compiled 2.6.24 kernel and the
shipped 2.6.24-26 kernel used the same file system when they load ,the
2.6.24 kernel corrupted the udev configuration when it loaded and this
corrupted udev created problems for the 2.6.24 kernel when it loaded
too. Please let me know the right approach to such a scenario and how
to solve it. Does creating different ext3 filesystems for the multiple
versions of the kernel
help solve this issue?

Thanks and Regards,
Praseen
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