Rebuild the kernel problem

[5th_Horseman]

I am a noob at building kernels and it is just asking weird to me.


I have created a new ultra2 off of the livecd 2004.3.

I got to the step to build the kernel and did everything I was supposed to except make reiserfs part of the kernel (I built it as a module).

I get the message on reboot that VFS: unable to mount root filesystem.

now I went back and booted the livecd and remounted everything and did a change root to get back in to the build.

I go back in to /usr/src/linux do a make menuconfig, load my alternate file that I copied to /boot and change the reiserfs to an Astric.

I save and copy by config file and issue the command that I built the kernel with

make dep && make clean vmlinux image modules modules_install

but it does not produce a vmlinux file in the /usr/src/linux directory.

What am I doing wrong?

Oh btw this is sparc-sources kernel and it is 2.4.28-sparc-r6

[Gecklord]

try it without "image"

[5th_Horseman]

That Got it!


Why did it work correctly on the first build but not the retries?


BTW who is ronnie?

[Gecklord]

Are you sure that you've used "make vmlinux image" the first time?

Ronnie is a character of Terry Pratchett's "Thief of Time" - he is the fith horseman

[5th_Horseman]

nope just thought it would be kewl to be the 5th horsman of the apocolypse



I just up arrowed and edited my cmd line so yes I did.
(Documented in the install docs and worked the first time)
make dep && make clean vmlinux image modules modules_install

I changed it to your suggestion of
make dep && make clean && make vmlinux && make modules && make modules_install

and it worked.