Kernel 2.6.9 issues...

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 25 October 2004 04:48 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > Is anyone else here having problems compiling kernel 2.6.9 or later?
> >
> > I've got one box that will compile a 2.6.8 kernel perfectly... But when I
> > through the 2.6.9 kernel sources at it... make bzImage runs crazy,
> > creating
>
> Why are you doing 'make bzImage'?  That sort of thing died with the 2.4.x
> kernel.  You're supposed to do:
> make [menu|x|old|...]config
> make
> make modules_install
>
> that's it.
>

Even that fails in a similar fashion.

---snip---

> I've got 2.6.9 built and running fine on a FC2 laptop.  What distro are
> you using, and which version of the stuff in
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes are you running?

This is all happening on an up todate gentoo box. The same box compiles 2.6.8 
perfectly, just 2.6.9 and later is giving me fits....

Jerry

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