Unable to Build Kernel

[Joe Dumais]

Thanks for the response, Jim.

One point of clarification.  I am trying to build in NFS (networked 
shared file system), not
NTFS .

The initrd image was rebuilt during the kernel make and install process. 
 I'm guessing that
my having to edit the sched.c file to get it to make probably caused a 
build of a bad kernel (i.e.,
my edited changes were sufficient to get a compile and link, but may be 
functionally woeful).
My concern is that the file did not "compile" on its own in the make 
process. I followed the
make instructions (e.g., make config, make depend, make bzImage, make 
install, etc.).  
Whatever is occurring would seem to be beyond my superficial control 
(e.g., incompatibility
of the gcc32 version with the kernel code?).

Jim Cornette wrote:

> Joe Dumais wrote:
>
>> I attempted to build the 2.4.22-1.2115 kernel turning on the options 
>> for NFS support.  The kernel build crashes because of an undefined 
>> reference to active_load_balance in function schedule of 
>> kernel/sched.c.  I have a single-processor Pentium-II, and did not 
>> turn on any options for multi-procesing.  Whatever combination of 
>> options got turned on is causing a call to active_load_balance 
>> without compiling it.  I have gcc 3.2.  Any ideas what the problem 
>> could be?  Attempts to change the sched.c code allowed me to build, 
>> but the resulting kernel would not run due to kernel panic.
>>
>>
> The latest kernel is 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl, so you probably have not 
> applied any updates to your system. I am only going on the old kernel 
> information.
>
> Anyway, your kernel is probably panicking because of the lack of an 
> intird image. You either have to create the intird image or not 
> reference one in the grub file. Also, if you have no intird image, you 
> must use actual device references within the kernel line.
>
> Another note: there is an add on rpm that is available where you can 
> install it with the Fedora kernel. You install this and you will then 
> have the ability to read an ntfs file system.
>
> Here is the link to the rpms for the ntfs module. This is not a 
> kernel, but the modules for different kernels and archetectures. I 
> just looked and there is a module for the *-2115.nptl kernel.
>
> http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora1.html
>
> Jim
>
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