> as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
> make[3] as86: command not found.
> Any ideas what am doing wrong?
Nothing. You just don't have a package installed that is required to build
the kernel:
bin86 (29 Kb)
Section: devel
Version: 0.3-1 Last modified: Fri Apr 26 10:47:00 1996
Architecture: i386
Maintainer:
Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
Assembler and loader for kernel compilation.
Depends:
libc5
> BTW I noticed a new vmlinux that is twice
> as large as my vmlinuz, so am guessing as86 has something to do with
> compressing vmlinux.
I'm not really sure. It is needed to build the 16-bit start-code for
the kernel. After this code is executed, the compressed kernel image
is decompressed.
Hope this helps,
Ray
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