I was also facing similar problem while rebuilding AS2.1. I should have seen the kernel version number.
BTW, this might help..I am not sure as I have not ventured to build AS3 yet. rpmbuild --target athlon --with up --without smp --without BOOT --without hugemem --without source Venkatesh K ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kris Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "rhel-rebuild list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:23 AM Subject: Re: Building kernel SRPM > I forgot to mention that I'm trying to build 3AS at the beginning of the > thread, I did mention the kernel was 2.4.21 though. > > I have successfully installed a rebuilt 3AS on a P3 1GHZ system, which > used i686 packages where possible, kernel, glibc, and openssl. This is now > my current build host. > > The 2nd computer I'm trying to install to is a K6 III, which 3AS wants to > install either i586 or i386 packages, but since the kernel won't build as > either of those architectures, I got stuck during the install with a > "Unsupport system type error", something to that affect. On the log > screen, alt+f3, it showed that the kernel was missing. This machine > doesn't have to be RHEL3AS based, I could install Debian on this one, but > we would like as many machines as possible to be the same distribution > (I'm more used to Red Hat and I have a set of scripts based around apt4rpm > to make updating and installing RPMs easy). > > Thanks for the tips. > > - Kris Jordan - > > > I have sucessfuly built kernel-2.4.9-e.27.src.rpm from updates and have > > been > > able to make few test installations. > > > > My build system was RHL 7.2 fully updated. > > > > Venkatesh K > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kris Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "rhel-rebuild list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:52 AM > > Subject: Re: Building kernel SRPM > > > > > >> i386 building of the kernel SRPM (option up), it won't build, some error > >> in fpu_entry.c, maybe that's why its disabled. Not sure what to do now, > >> besides upgrading the machine so that it will use the i686 kernel. > >> > >> - Kris Jordan - > >> > >> > I'll do that if > >> > > >> > rpmbuild --target i386 --with up --with smp --without BOOT --without > > debug > >> > <spec file> > >> > > >> > provided by Venkatesh. K > >> > > >> > does not work. Already tried two similar commands w/o luck, on my last > > try > >> > right now, it should finish real soon now. > >> > > >> > Thanks > >> > > >> > - Kris Jordan - > >> > > >> >>> I have a system that will take a i586 kernel, but since the kernel > > SPEC > >> >>> file has a problem, it won't build me one. I don't know the SPEC > > file > >> >>> format enough to fix it. > >> >> ... > >> >>> > >> >>> - Kris Jordan - > >> >>> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> 1. Extract kernel-2.4.spec from kernel SRPM to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS > >> >> > >> >> 2. Find this text: > >> >> > >> >> %ifarch i386 > >> >> %define buildsmp 0 > >> >> %define buildup 0 > >> >> %endif > >> >> > >> >> Edit it to > >> >> > >> >> %ifarch i386 > >> >> %define buildsmp 1 > >> >> %define buildup 1 > >> >> %endif > >> >> > >> >> 3. extract all other files from kernel SRPM to > >> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES > >> >> > >> >> 4. cd to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS > >> >> 5. run > >> >> rpmbuild -ba kernel-2.4.spec > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Regards, > >> >> Igor Poteryaev > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> rhel-rebuild mailing list > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria > >> >> > >> > > >> > rh > rhel-rebuild mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria > rhel-rebuild mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
