Compiling an i386 2.6.1 kernel on an Opteron

From: Philippe (plegault_at_coradiant.com)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: 3 Feb 2004 06:55:25 -0800

Hi there,

   I've been trying to compile an i386 2.6.1 kernel on my Opteron
machine. At first I started by doing "make ARCH=i386 menuconfig" and
specifying the processor type (i386) and I thought it would go ahead
normally (ha!). Keep in mind that this is a very simple kernel,
nothing fancy in the configuration.

In any case, that simple compilation just resulted in an error. I've
also tried building a cross-compile toolchain but it didn't work
either...

Can anyone give me a step-by-step on how I would resolve this
compiling problem? Has anyone tried to do it?

Thanks,

Phil

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