oops, my bad. you need the bin86 package. sorry about that. jason
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Holland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 6:18 AM > To: Gutierrez Family; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Error compiling kernel > > > Hi, > You need to install binutils, as you are missing the as86 assembler. > Also, i would run make bzImage, instead of make zImage, compression on the > kernel will be better. > > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gutierrez Family [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:46 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Error compiling kernel > > > Hi everyone, > > I tried to re-compile the kernel (to include generic SCSI support for my > scanner) and ran into problems. Here's what I did - as far as I can > remember (following the instructions in the README file found in > the kernel > source directory): > > 1) logged in as root > 1) ran the xconfig program and selected my options > 2) ran 'make dep' (from within /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/) > 2) ran 'make zImage' ( also from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/) and it > compiled for quite a while until I got the following message: > > "nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( [aU] > \)\|\(\.\.ng$\)\|\(LASH[RL]DI\)' | sort > System.map > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot' > as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s > make[1]: as86: Command not found > make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot' > make: *** [zImage] Error 2 > navi:/usr/src/linux# " > > Do you know how I can get the kernel compiled fully? > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
