Does the file /usr/bin/as86 exist? Is the bin86 package installed? If
not, install it.
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Lothar Krenzien wrote:
> Hi everybody !
>
> I´m using Debian 1.3.1. from the german computer magazin "Chip"
> and have a very misterious problem when I want to build / compile
> a customize kernel. On every time I use "make zImage" after about 5
> minutes
> I get an error like " command as86 (also ld86) not found , leaving
> directory ./linux/arch/i386/boot, [bootsect.o] Error 127, [zImage] Error
>
> 2" . And the process aborts without anything done. When I use "make
> bzImage" the end is the same.
> I tryed it with many configurations and kernel sources ( 2.0.29 - 2.0.33
>
> ). But nothing work. I also edited the Makefile in that directory and
> comment out the lines with this operations. Then I get only errors
> like "unknown ( or invalid ) processor command ". Then I probed to
> rename
> the files /usr/i486-linuxaout/bin/as and ld to as86 and ld86 or create
> a link from the directory named above to these files. It didn´t
> work. I used "make menuconfig" because "make xconfig" didn´t work.
> But X with the KDE display manager works fine. All the required links
> should
> be ok. I didn´t have any *.rej after that or a file /usr/bin/encaps
> ( a tip from the S.u.S.e online support database ) ." Make dep" and "
> make
> clean" worked correct. I don´t know what could it be. Perhaps has
> somebody other an idea or can help me in any way (but I don´t want to do
> an BIOS update). I had a problem like this also with an older Slackware
> distribution.
> Then I have an another problem with kdm. Since few days it doesn´t work
> and I don´t no why.
> The problem is that I don´t get any error messages or entrys in
> log-files or so on. The programm just don´t do anything. I can type in
> "xdm" and after 1 or 2 seconds I see the prompt again. That´s all ! On
> reason could be that the file /etc/init.de/xdm has 0 byte and is empty.
> Does somebody know from where I can get an installation package ? On the
> CD or the Debian ftp-Server I didn´t found it.
>
> greetings
> Lothar
>
> Some informations about my system :
> =========================
> harddisk : Seagate ST52520A ; 2.5 GB (IDE)
> board : Octek Rhino 9 HX PCI
> graphic : Matrox Mystique (yes ... ) 2 MB
> processor : Cyrix 6x86 P166 + Rev. 2.7
> other : Soundblaster 16 PnP ( ... ) and Hauppauge WinTV/pci ( also
> called as WinCastTV)
> Win95b on a primary partition (hda1) and Linux on a logical partition
> (hda5 and hda6)
> LILO in MBR
> Award PnP PCI-Bios v. 4.51PG 1996
>
> Some Debian informations :
> ====================
> gcc-2.7.2.1-3
> libc4-4.6.27-15
> libc5-5.4.17-1
> libc5-dev-5.4.17-1
> libc5-pic-5.4.17-1
> binutils-2.7-5
> ldso-1.8.5-1
> make-3.75-1
> dpkg-dev-1.4.0.5
>
>
>
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