Re: Build kernel: sigh... got an ugly error message just before make lifimage

[Ruediger Scholz <rscholz@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de>]

Hi,
Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe schrieb:

>  Hi everyone!
>
> Maybe some of you gurus will be able to give me some enlightenment... 

I'm not a guru, but here are some hints...

> I have gcc, kernel-package, kernel-source-2.4.18-hppa, libc6-dev, 
> tk8.3, libncurses5-dev and  fakeroot installed in a C110, and I did 
> the classic minueto: 

1. you should upgrade your kernel-source. kernel 2.4.18 is really old 
now, and there are many problems on hppa with such an old kernel. Use 
kernel-source-2.4.22-hppa, or get the freshest kernel source from 
cvs.parisc-linux.org. (for more informations how to get cvs access see 
http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/cvs.html)

> ....
> make dep
> make bzImage 

2. palo (PArisc BOotloader) doesn't understand compressed kernel images. 
Use 'make vmlinux' instead.

> .....cd ../palo && make lifimage
> /bin/sh cd: ../palo: No such file or directory
> make: *** [palo] Error 1 

3. In the makefile of older kernel for hppa palo is called to create a 
lifimage, so one can boot over network, etc. For this  you need the 
sources of palo installed in the appropriate directory. But you can  
just comment it out. (or update your kernel source...)

Greetings,
   Ruediger