On Thu, 23 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried the procedure you (and a couple of others) suggested. I currently > have debian 0.93R6 installed and am trying to compile the kernel from > devel/source-1.3.64-0.deb
You've got the wrong kernel version. These instructions only apply to recent kernel versions, 1.3.97 or later. > I also tried doing "make zImage" I get > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-1.3.64/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes > -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 > -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DNFS_ROOT="\"/tftpboot/%s\"" > -c -o init/main.o init/main .c > cc1: Invalid option `align-loops=2' > cc1: Invalid option `align-jumps=2' > cc1: Invalid option `align-functions=2' > make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 > > I do have gcc version 2.6.3 so I don't think that should be a problem. > Any ideas? No idea. As a wild guess i'd suspect that maybe you're trying to compile an ELF kernel with an a.out only gcc. If this is the case, then you can 'make config' again to de-select the "compile kernel as ELF?" option and recompile...or you can upgrade to ELF. Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has written some good notes on how to upgrade from 0.93r6 to 1.1 - he posts them semi-regularly to the debian mailing lists - if you follow them to the point of updating to ELF ld.so and libc5, then you can upgrade to the latest gcc and libc5-dev, then you can compile an ELF kernel. Note, you may need to first compile an a.out kernel with ELF binary support built in (NOT as a module - ld.so won't let you upgrade to the latest version if ELF support is not in the kernel), reboot on that, and then do the upgrade as written by Dale. I'd suggest upgrading to the beta 1.1, keeping track of (and reporting) any bugs which affect you and upgrading only the packages affected as fixes come out. When 1.1 goes from beta to release status, do a full upgrade again. Debian 1.1 might still be called 'unstable', but that refers more to the fact that packages are being upgraded every day with new versions. As far as functionality goes, it's at least as stable and reliable as 0.93r6. The hard part is doing the initial upgrade from 0.93r6 to 1.1 - you've got to take that slowly and carefully. As I mentioned, Dale has written some very good instructions on how to do this. If you think about what you're doing and pause for a second before hitting the enter key you wont run into any trouble. After that, subsequent upgrades will be no hassle at all - it's just the switch from a.out to ELF which makes the upgrade a little dangerous if performed without thought. Craig
