[3388] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Compiling Kernel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Hutchinson)
Fri Nov 8 11:27:28 1996
From: "Todd Hutchinson" <hutch@hummock.colorado.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:21:53 -0700
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I thought I understood how to compile the kernel until
I tried today. Spent the whole day installing, upgrading the
4.0 Errata pkgs and all seemed to go well until I decided
to compile the kernel to more closely match my config.
Now I get kernel:module errors... and undefine links....
Tried to put everything back to original and now it too
complains about module problems.
What could I be doing wrong?
Normally I do....
make mrproper
make config
make dep
make clean
make zlilo
make modules
make modules_install
Also tried zImage and manually moving the kernel into
place but still no luck. Any suggestions greatly
appreciated!
Well, I'm not sure what zlilo does since I didn't use it. I used make zImage
in place of where you have make zlilo. I'm guessing that your getting the
module errors and undefined links at bootup (or when you execute depmod -a,
which is what happens at bootup). I also got similar errors when I first
compiled the kernel. Here's what I ended up doing to alleviate them:
First rename the /lib/2.0.18 directory and then mkdir /lib/2.0.18, that way if
something goes wrong you can go back. Then redo the steps that you listed
above. Also, I may have the directory name slightly wrong since I can't check
it right now, but it should be close to that.
This relieved all of my bootup errors except for one. The bootup error that
was not resolved was a complaint about undefined symbols in iBCS. I have not
solved this yet. Perhaps someone reading this can help me. I did compile my
Kernel as a modular kernel as the iBCS stuff said that I should. Also, let me
know if I've done something incorrect by renaming the original lib/2.0.18
directory. If what I've done is correct, it should be documented in the Red
Hat User's Guide.
Todd
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