RE: Error compiling kernel
oops, my bad. you need the bin86 package. sorry about that.
jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Holland [mailto:jphollan@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 6:18 AM
> To: Gutierrez Family; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: Error compiling kernel
>
>
> Hi,
> You need to install binutils, as you are missing the as86 assembler.
> Also, i would run make bzImage, instead of make zImage, compression on the
> kernel will be better.
>
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gutierrez Family [mailto:gutierrez_fam@geocities.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:46 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Error compiling kernel
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I tried to re-compile the kernel (to include generic SCSI support for my
> scanner) and ran into problems. Here's what I did - as far as I can
> remember (following the instructions in the README file found in
> the kernel
> source directory):
>
> 1) logged in as root
> 1) ran the xconfig program and selected my options
> 2) ran 'make dep' (from within /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/)
> 2) ran 'make zImage' ( also from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/) and it
> compiled for quite a while until I got the following message:
>
> "nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( [aU]
> \)\|\(\.\.ng$\)\|\(LASH[RL]DI\)' | sort > System.map
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot'
> as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
> make[1]: as86: Command not found
> make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [zImage] Error 2
> navi:/usr/src/linux# "
>
> Do you know how I can get the kernel compiled fully?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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