Kernel upgrade problems

[parun]

hi there!

I upgraded redhat 6.1 from orginal kernel 2.2.12-20 to 2.2.17. This seemed to complete however upon reboot a few errors appeared in the start up of daemons:

/lib/modules (cannot resolve modules.dep for 2.2.17) I looked in this dir after log in its sub dir is called 2.2.12-20 the old version. I renamed this dir to 2.2.17 but upon reboot it stated each file name unresolved in this dir? Only one file in this dir modules.dep was dated today (date of upgrade) all other files in this directory have 1999 dates? How do I fix this issue? Do I remove any files?

Also /proc/sys/sysrq cannot file or directory what is sysrq?

plus my auxmix is not starting did a makemenuconfig configured sound but still doesn't work?

[Daedra]

when you compiled your kernel, after you did

make bzImage
did you do

make modules
make modules_install
?

[parun]

yes already did a 'make bzImage'
but not 'make modules' or make 'modules_install'
running linux book by o'reilly's did not mention this?

after reboot that fixed the modules issue thanks, I now have left upon start up:

cannot find sound module FAILED?
& the sysrq missing as mentioned earlier?