On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:44:36PM -0700, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I've been trying to get a 2.6.6 kernel going at my end... I first > downloaded the stable 2.6 kernel from kernel.org, compiled it and tried > booting. It gets to the white screen immediately after the boot prompt screen > and stops... so it doesn't boot. I then searched and found the 2.6.6 kernel > (from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/kernel-source-2.6.6) with > Debian patches for powerpc, downloaded it and tried compiling. I get the > following error while doing a make modules: > > CC [M] drivers/net/ns83820.o > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `drivers/net/tg3.c', needed by > `drivers/net/tg3.o'. Stop. > make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2 > make: *** [drivers] Error 2 > > Is there another 2.6.6 kernel that I should be using? Or is there a way to > get the kernel I obtained from kernel.org to boot? Please let me know.
Both should work, it is probably a matter of configuration file. Which hardware do you plan to run it on ? And what configuration file do you use ? Also, what would be the problem in simply using the preconfigured kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc package ? Friendly, Sven Luther
