kernel problems
Perhaps this isn't the proper list to send kernel problems to but I not sure
where else to post it. Anyways, I have never been able to properly make a kernel...i dloaded the kernel-source kernel-headers .deb packages and then did
unpack them...it created a kernel-sources and headers dir in my /usr/src dir.
So i went into the /usr/src/kernel-header-etc... directory and did the
make config make dep make clean per the Kernel-HOWTO but then when i get to
the make zImage it fails out after a bit of compiling with this errors.
./xtract /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback > piggy.o
Non-GCC header of 'system'
Compressed size 20.
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -traditional -c head.S
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -c misc.c -o misc.o
ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfe0 -o vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 00000fe0
misc.o: In function `fill_inbuf':
misc.o(.text+0x1ebc): undefined reference to `input_data'
misc.o(.text+0x1ec1): undefined reference to `input_len'
misc.o(.text+0x1ed7): undefined reference to `input_data'
make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
make[1]: *** [compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [zImage] Error 2
I'm not sure if I am going through the wrong procedure to install a new kernel
or if there is an error somewhere else. Sorry about asking such a general
question to a debian list.
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