Hi,
are you using the same config file as you benh9 kernel? I don't
think the compiler is your problem, but, I am no expert. since you are only
able to run 'make config' (you are very patient), make sure that you didn't
specify something like devfs by mistake. maybe someone else w/ more
experience can be of more help.
BTW, have you tried 'make xconfig'?
-ajay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: befu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:06 AM
> To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org; Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Subject: No compiling of benh10 kernel on my Wallstreet
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> I have a problem with the compilation of the actual benh10
> kernel on my
> Wallstreet PowerBook G3.
>
> I have the debian woody version running fine with the benh9 kernel.
> When I use the gcc compiler v. 2.95.4-14 (-11woody1) from the
> stable tree, I
> make the following observations:
>
> 1. I only can use `make config' . When I try to use `make
> menuconfig' , an
> error message comes up and tells that I have to use `Ncurses'
> to run `make
> menuconfig'. ncurses is installed, but Ncurses (capital N!) I
> can't find on
> the stable tree. But nontheless I can make the configuration
> file and start
> `make vmlinux'.
>
> Before I compile the kernel I use `make clean'.
>
> 2. the compilation with `make vmlinux' takes about 20 minutes
> and no error
> messages come up. Also `make modules' and `make
> modules_install' are running
> without a glitch.
>
> 3. After copying the System.map, the vmlinux and the config
> file to the
> /boot directory and the vmlinux file to the Linux Kernel Folder in the
> System Folder of my MacOS9 partition, I try to boot with the
> new kernel.
> After abt. 3 seconds of booting time, I get the following
> message on top of
> the screen:
>
> <0>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 21:03
> <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds...
>
> The last lines on the screen before it halts say:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hde3" or 21:03
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> <0>Kernel panic...
>
>
> I made several retries with a freshly rsynced
> /usr/src/benh_kernel folder
> but nothing changed.
>
> Then I thought to use a newer gcc compiler and I installed the only
> available gcc from the unstable tree of the version 3.3-2.
> When I use this version I also can only use the `make config'
> command. The
> compiling of the kernel with `make vmlinux' takes abt 9
> minutes and halts
> with the following error messages:
>
> ....
> In file included from ide-cd.c:318:
> ide-cd.h:440: error: long, short, signed or unsigned used
> invalidly for
> `slot-tablelen'
> make[3]: *** [ide-cd.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/drivers/ide'
> make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/drivers/ide'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_ide] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/drivers'
> make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> $:/usr/src/benh_kernel#
>
> After this message no kernel has been compiled at all.
>
>
> Can somebody tell me what is going on? Do I need a different
> gcc compiler
> and where to get it? Or does the compiling with the 2.95 gcc
> compiler depend
> on some settings in the config file? I made `make config'
> with the original
> settings suggested.
>
> Please tell me, what I am doing wrong
>
> Befu
>
>
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