On Wednesday 22 August 2001 11:08 pm, Tim Wunder wrote:
> Previously, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > Net Llama wrote:
> > > --- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>Trying to compile the 2.4.9 kernel on my eD2.4 box. I'm going from the
> > >>2.2.14
> > >>kernel, so I had to do a lot of updating: modutils, e2fsprogs, ppp,
> > >>bison,
> > >>byacc, reiserfs-utils. Some from tarball (modutils, e2fsprog, ppp),
> > >>some from
> > >>eW3.1 SRPM (bison, byacc, reiserfs-utils).
> > >>
> > >>I managed to get thru make xconfig (although resierfs options didn't
> > >>show --
> > >>why would that be?), make dep, make clean, but it fails on make
> > >
> > > Because you never patched the kernel with the Reiser code
> >
> > OK. I guess I gotta learn how to do that, now. I'm sure it's "easy".
> >
> > >>bzImage when
> > >>it tries to compile support for my SCSI card -- aic7xxx.
> > >>Here is the error output:
> > >>pdc202xx.c: In function `config_chipset_for_dma':
> > >>pdc202xx.c:528: warning: `drive_pci' might be used uninitialized in
> > >>this
> > >>function
> > >>/tmp/ccZhgkxz.o: In function `yyparse':
> > >>/tmp/ccZhgkxz.o(.text+0xc50): undefined reference to `yylex'
> > >>/tmp/ccZhgkxz.o(.text+0x10b6): undefined reference to `include_file'
> > >>/tmp/ccZhgkxz.o(.text+0x10d0): undefined reference to `include_file'
> > >>/tmp/ccZhgkxz.o(.text+0x24f8): undefined reference to `yylex'
> > >>/tmp/ccVnaMqk.o: In function `main':
> > >>/tmp/ccVnaMqk.o(.text+0x3a3): undefined reference to `include_file'
> > >>make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1
> > >>make[4]: *** [aicasm/aicasm] Error 2
> > >>make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> > >>make[2]: *** [_subdir_aic7xxx] Error 2
> > >>make[1]: *** [_subdir_scsi] Error 2
> > >>make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> > >>
> > >>Previous to this error, I had a problem with not finding lex. I
> > >>symlinked
> > >>/usr/bin/flex to /usr/bin/lex. After that, I get the above error.
> > >>Should I not have linked flex and lex? Is that not related to this?
> > >>Should I
> > >>try to make xconfig again and review my SCSI settings?
> > >>Anyone have a big clue stick?
> > >
> > > You did the symlink backwards. It should be /usr/bin/lex -> flex
> >
> > Actually, I didn't, I just phrased what I did incorrectly. I executed:
> > ln -s /usr/bin/flex /usr/bin/lex
> >
> > Any other suggestions? Is there something other than the bison and flex
> > RPMs from eW31 that I need?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
>
> OK. I reconfigured the SCSI support. Didn't do anything earth-shattering,
> just removed some things that shuldn't have been there (turned off
> SYM53C8XX SCSI support, turned off verbose SCSI error reporting) and the
> compile seems to have worked. I did get a bzImage file in
> linux-2.4.9/arch/i386/boot. I then execute make modules and make
> modules_install, which seemed to work ok (no errors). I then copied the
> bzImage file to /boot/vmlinuz-athlon and made an entry in my
> /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
>
> title = Caldera 2D2.4 with 2.4.9 kernel
> root = (hd1,1)
> kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-athlon vga=normal debug=2 root=/dev/hdb2
> hdd=ide-scsi
Is your /boot on a separate partition?? Your root=(hd1,1) statement above
is pointing to /dev/hdb2 which would not be correct if /boot is on its own
partition.
>
> When I try to boot with it, I get this error:
> invalid compressed format (err=1)
> System Halted
>
> Obviously, it didn't work. What did I do wrong? There's a script in the
> same directory where the bzImage was placed called install.sh. Am I
> supposed to run that? I hope not, it looks like it'll run lilo, which would
> certainly cause problems with grub.
>
> Please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'm only getting about have of the posts on
> the list thru the twunder@iwmail address. I don't know if the problem is
> with @home's mail servers or my mail forwarder, but there's a problem
> somewhere.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
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