Re: Building custom kernel

2004-03-05 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
snip (Where /usr/src/linux is a symlink to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25) I don't understand why it hangs at the end. make -d menuconfig didn't seem to reveal anything useful either. Ideas? I've just been here myself. The following works for me : - Install the kernel source in /usr/src

Re: Building custom kernel

2004-03-05 Thread Jim Watson
I have tried burning frankincence and threw snillocneb three times over my shoulder but still it is not working :( jim On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:52:39AM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: I've just been here myself. The following works for me :

Re: Building custom kernel

2004-03-05 Thread Janos Sziliczi
Jim, Igmar and me said same thing. The essence: CC has to be 64 bit C compiler HOSTCC has to be 32 bit C compiler (Igmar has 64 bit gcc, I have 32 bit gcc, so we said the same.) Check whether the above things is true on your computer. Other suggestion: The 'make menuconfig' uses the ncurses5

Re: Building custom kernel

2004-03-04 Thread Jim Watson
I did as described by Mustafa (thanks) but LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/sparc64/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x72c): In function Setup_arch': : undefined reference to Rd_image_start' I have searched around and find some old discussions but nothing that helps me see what is missing? any

RE: Building custom kernel

2004-03-04 Thread Small, Jim
Ben, I'd be interested in your input on this. I thought the latest direction was to use gcc 3.3.3+ for kernel compilation versus egcs64. Please correct me if I'm wrong... Jim If you want to build custom kernel, I suggest that you should download the source from ftp://ftp.kernel.org or

Re: Building custom kernel

2004-03-03 Thread Mustafa Hussein
Small, Jim wrote: I am trying to build a custom kernel under Debian Sparc64 using a recent 2.4 kernel. I am running the latest of everything (unstable) via apt-get dist-upgrade. I tried to install the minimum amount of packages necessary. I am running on a 2 CPU Ultra 60. I did an apt-get