On Wednesday 27 November 2002 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Re: Compiling a kernel giving me fits... > From: "Christopher A. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: > Date: 27 Nov 2002 09:16:29 -0700 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 08:38, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > I've been trying unsuccessfully now for weeks to get a kernel to > > > compile, with no success. I have always used the Red Hat config > > > files (in the configs directory of the kernel source tree) as a > > > starting point for creating a custom kernel. One would think this > > > would be pretty straight forward, but it doesn't work. If you: > > > > > > 1) make mrproper > > > 2) make xconfig (and load one of these config files) > > > 3) make dep > > > 4) make bzImage... > > > > > > Stop! It segfaults right there. > > > > Reproducibly? > > > > That means, if you repeated above procedure, would it always > > segfault? And if you ran "make bzImage" a second time, would it > > segfault again at the same place? > > Yes, this is reproducible. It will segfault in exactly the same place > every time. It also does this with a standard kernel. Looks like I was > missing a step (see below). > > > > OK - now that I have that off my chest, is this already Bugzilla'd > > > somewhere to anyone's knowledge? Does a Red Hat kernel config exist > > > anywhere I could get my hands on that will compile correctly? > > > > All those in the configs directory. Try this just for fun: > > > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4 > > make mrproper > > cp configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config .config > > make oldconfig > > make dep bzImage modules modules_install install > > Tried it - except for the make modules_install install parts, since I > don't want to do this yet. > > This does work - the main difference I see is the make oldconfig step, > which I was not doing. From here then, I should be able to modify the > config file to taste and move ahead. -Thanks! > > I'll have to work on the rest after work. Next for me is to compile the > new sis900 drivers from the 2.5.49 tree so I can use my on-board > Ethernet controller instead of my old 3Com NIC, which is keeping > another machine off my network. <smile> > > Cheers, > > Chris Williams
There also excellent step by step documentation on how to recompile a kernel in the redhat customization guide appendix. The documentation lists all the essential steps, so you will be less likely to miss one. In this case, the documentation gets a kudo. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
