Re: building the kernel

From: Sybren Stüvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURimagination.thirdtower.com)
Date: 11/28/03

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    Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:16:12 +0100
    
    

    On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:57:33 -0800, Paul wrote:

    > 3.) cd linux-2.4.20 (I went into the folder)

    3.1) make mrproper

    > My Next attemp I got a little farther after instead of doing make
    > bzDisk I copied bzImage from /linux-2.4.20/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
    > to my floppy.

    No need to do 'make bzDisk' then.

    > I restarted my computer the kernel was booting until I got this
    > error "kernel panic:VFS: cannot mount root directory on 3:05"

    Did you pass the right 'root=/dev/hdXY' option during boot?

    > Iam not sure if that was the exact error though.

    Next time, make sure *before* you post. We can't help you based on
    things that *might* have happened.

    > when I started kde I got an error that it cannot find /dev/sdo or
    > the sound file.

    Post *exact* error messages, not your interpretation of it.

    > after giving the command make bzImage I get this error "make: ***
    > [vmlinux] Error 1"

    That's not the error message, that's only the indication that
    something went wrong. The error message(s) can be found above that
    line.

    > I tried to ignore it

    Not smart.

    > and I went to their next direction which was "# cp
    > /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-test
    > but their is no bzImage in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot

    Which isn't surprising since you unpacked the source in /home/user.

    > If I dont get it right in the next two days can someone please help
    > me.

    Ask again in two days if you only want help by then ;-)

    Sybren

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    //\   A: God can change the byte order on the CPU, root can't.
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