Re: Why does the kernel build fail out of the box?

["Abhi" <abhi_sri gmx net>]

I assume you did a 'make mrproper' in the beginning ?

That has been made a must now.

Regards,
Abhi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Nesbitt" <pete linux1 ca>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: Why does the kernel build fail out of the box?


> On January 4, 2004 03:39 pm, rh9 penn net wrote:
> > up2date provided the source and binaries for 2.4.20-27.9
> >
> > I want to build from source the binary kernel which was
> > installed, since I have been having problems running a built
> > kernel, even though I have been building UNIX kernels since 1979.
> >
> > It is failing, and I have documented the process below.  Comments?
> >
>
> Hi,
> I just tried recompiling the Fedora 1 kernel using 'make xconfig' and had
> pretty well the same results. I tried it twice, same thing.
>
> Then I redid everything but used 'make menuconfig' (instead of xconfig)
and it
> appears to have compiled properly. (it's still grinding thru modules, so
I'll
> finish it up tomorrow, but it has finished making the new image.)
> -- 
> Pete Nesbitt, rhce