[Ltsp-discuss] Ltsp for SuSE 8.0 running on opeteron

[James Clift]

Hi,

        I have been attempting to build a kernel which will boot a 64 bit opteron thin client via PXE using LTSP. I am new to this and spent time reading etc.. but so far have been unsuccssful.  I have used the configuration file for the 2.4.19 i386 release but keep getting a compile error when building the bzImage as follows:

make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-ltsp-1/fs/partitions'
make[3]: Circular /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-ltsp-1/include/asm/processor.h <- /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-ltsp-1/include/linux/list.h dependency dropped.
make[3]: Circular /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-ltsp-1/include/asm/pda.h <- /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-ltsp-1/include/linux/list.h dependency dropped.
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-ltsp-1/include  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -pipe -fno-reorder-blocks -finline-limit=2000 -fno-strength-reduce -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables    -DKBUILD_BASENAME=check  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c check.c
check.c: In function `devfs_register_disc':
check.c:327: structure has no member named `number'
check.c:328: structure has no member named `number'
check.c: In function `devfs_register_partitions':
check.c:360: structure has no member named `number'
make[3]: *** [check.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-ltsp-1/fs/partitions'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-ltsp-1/fs/partitions'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_partitions] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-ltsp-1/fs'
make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2

I have tried changing the file system settings for various kinds of support but always get the same error. I understand that this may be a problem with the SuSE 8.0 release for opteron, but was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I have successfully built the kernel using the default configuration, however when I tag this kernel and try to boot it I get a image to large message. Whenever I try to change the configuration I get the above compile error. Thanks in advance

James Clift
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