Hi Linus, newer binutils (current CVS version and the soon to be release 2.11) don't support "ld -oformat binary" anymore. Instead two dashes should be used ("ld --oformat binary"). This works with both old and new binutils. Please apply the appended patch which fixes all occurences in the kernel. Thanks, Andreas --- arch/i386/boot/Makefile Tue Dec 21 05:00:53 1999 +++ /usr/src/linux-2.4.2-pre3/arch/i386/boot/Makefile Sat Feb 10 12:56:36 2001 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ $(HOSTCC) $(HOSTCFLAGS) -o $@ $< -I$(TOPDIR)/include bootsect: bootsect.o - $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary -o $@ $< + $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -o $@ $< bootsect.o: bootsect.s $(AS) -o $@ $< @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ $(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) -traditional $(SVGA_MODE) $(RAMDISK) $< -o $@ bbootsect: bbootsect.o - $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary $< -o $@ + $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary $< -o $@ bbootsect.o: bbootsect.s $(AS) -o $@ $< @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ $(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional $(SVGA_MODE) $(RAMDISK) $< -o $@ setup: setup.o - $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $< + $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $< setup.o: setup.s $(AS) -o $@ $< @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ $(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) -traditional $(SVGA_MODE) $(RAMDISK) $< -o $@ bsetup: bsetup.o - $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $< + $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $< bsetup.o: bsetup.s $(AS) -o $@ $< -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] private [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.suse.de/~aj - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/