kernel compile errors

silente · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Arizona

Hello,
Iwas running the gentoo instalation, and everything was going smoothly untill it was time to compile the kernel, I configured the kernel with menuconfig then typed "make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install" and I recieved errors. i checked and there was no bzImage in the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ directory. I ran a make dep command by itself and that seemed to run fine but gave me no image. I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this problem or could help me solve it. I run an athlon 900 with 352 megs of ram and my boot partition is an ide 7 gig western digital drive set as the secondary slave on an iwill kk266 mother board (via chipset driven). I believe that part of the problem could be due to my config file. in menuconfig when it asks me to save to a file i just type config. is there a specific file name that I should use?

thank you in advance

BonezTheGoon · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 8:23 pm Post subject:

Yeah I made the same mistake once when using menuconfig for the first time. You are bailing out and it is asking you if you want to save the configuration, you need to exit gracefully and it will build the config correctly (with the default name and such) then you should be able to resume with the make . . .

rac · Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 8:26 pm Post subject:

'make dep' only figures out dependency information; it doesn't actually build anything of direct use to you. You shouldn't have to specify a filename when you quit menuconfig; it will use '.config' (note leading dot) as its default, which is in most cases what you want. Please try running each stage of the make separately (i.e. 'make bzImage', then 'make modules', etc), proceeding to the next stage only if the previous stage completed without error. When you notice an error, if you can't figure out what is causing it, please post the exact error and, chances are, some part of the many-eyeballed forum monster will help you.
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silente · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Arizona

thank you for the help that worked very well. I exited menuconfig without saving and said yes when it asked me to save and it saved to the default .config file.

BonezTheGoon · Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 4:39 pm Post subject:

Glad to hear it worked for you, I made that very same mistake.

Regards,
BonezTheGoon