so basically long story short Ive been working with rebuilding the CD to have drivers for some things I require. Basically I zcat the core.gz file to a directory call extract. Then I rebuild the kernel using the kernel provided by tinycore and built it outside my working project. then using [root@mantaray linux-3.0.3]#make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=../extract modules_install
extract being my project directory. Then doing a depmod -a -b extract/ to get the modules in.
This has worked flawlessly since during boot it detects all the hardware without issue. The problem I'm having is when I do a modprobe ipmi_msghandler for example I get ipmi_msghandler not found. Whats weird ,to me at least, is that if I do a modprobe -l | grep ipmi it finds the module just fine.
So doing some troubleshooting, and I'm no expert, I ran strace on the call and it does go to the correct files. I even checked the files to see is it in there? and still its a no go. Now I am curious if its a pathing issue since the modules.deb etc all tart /kernel/drivers/***** instead of what I would expect /lib/modules/3.0.3-tinycore/kernel/drivers/****
Am I doing something wrong?