Re: compilation issues

[Tim Cutts <tjrc@sanger.ac.uk>]

On 29 May 2004, at 9:06 am, Kallol Biswas wrote:

> Folks,
>       I have a  problem compiling the kernel source. I did an apt-get
> install kernel-source\* to get the source and then tried to do make
> menuconfig, make dep but make bzImage displayed the message no such
> target. So I just compiled the vmlinux with make vmlinux. The /boot
> directory contained the vmlinuz file vmlinuz-2.4.17-mckinley-smp.
> The command file on the vmlinuz files showed that it was a gzip
> compressed file. So I gzip'd the newly created vmlinux and put it under
> boot. But during booting with this new vmlinuz the system rebooted.
>
> There should some place where the steps to compile linux for Itanium is
> given. Do you know where to get this information from? Searching on
> google did not find any useful information.

Why not use make-kpkg after your make menuconfig?  One of the nicest 
things about Debian is how easy it is to build a pukka Debian kernel 
package with this script.  I have to confess I haven't used it on an 
IA64 box yet, but I've always used it on X86 and Alpha machines with 
great success.  It's in the kernel-package package.

Tim

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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK