I installed Debian 2.1 and tried to recompile the 2.0.36 sources. During the link phase I got lot's of unresolved references. What is missing?
ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x100000 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a \ fs/filesystems.a \ drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a drivers/pci/pci.a \ /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux init/main.o: In function `ramdisk_start_setup': init/main.o(.text+0x511): undefined reference to `rd_image_start' init/main.o: In function `load_ramdisk': init/main.o(.text+0x52c): undefined reference to `rd_doload' ..... Klaus