[H-GEN] compiling kernel

[Matt Bodman]

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>
> Raymond Smith wrote:
>
> > It would also be useful for you to list the commands you used to build the
> > kernel, exactly as you typed them and in the order you executed them.

My machine is a Cyrix 6x86 300 (sorry if this makes anyone vomit) and I'm
running Redhat 7 with kernel vmlinuz-2.2.16-22.

This is how I attempted to build my new kernel...

1. made changes thru xconfig then saved and exited.

2. dep && make clean  (seemed to work fine)

3. make bzImage

*noted lots of "warnings" like 'cpu data' redefined, 'smp_num_cpus' redefined
etc...

I assume this just relates to the changes I made in xconfig

*then this at the end of the compile log..

make[2]:***[ksyms.o] Error 1
make[2]:Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel
make[1]:***[first rule] Error 2
make[1]:Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel
make:***[_dir_kernel] Error 2

Obviously, that's where I had to stop.

However, I will explain what I would have done next in case there's a problem
there also..

4. make modules

5. make modules_install

6. copy the bzImage and System.map files to /boot

7. depmod -a

8. add new kernel to lilo (but not as default in case it doesn't work)

Thanks,
Matt



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