troubles building kernel

[David Cary Hart]

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 18:31 -0700, EBEIGHE bicyclewheelers.com wrote:
> hi there.
> i've never actually built a kernel before, so I'm having newbie trouble -- I 
> wonder if some kind soul can set me straight?

It would help if you describe the end result that you are trying to
accomplish.

Are you are simply trying to learn how too build a kernel from source or
are you trying to modify something?

> Trying to keep things simple, I am attempting to build the exact kernel that 
> my system already has, FC3 (2.6.9-1.667). I downloaded the source, 
> configured it (It is the same .config as is in the configs directory for 
> i686) and built the bzImage.
> 
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm
> rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec
> make bzImage
> 
> This all seems to go okay, but when I try and boot with bzImage, it gets a 
> couple of errors like:
> "error inserting /lib/jbd.ko" and "error inserting /lib/ext3.ko", and then 
> panics.
> 
> Do I *have to* also build modules? I wouldn't think so, since I am just 
> trying to build the same kernel.
> Does the system.map file matter?
> 
> Thanks.
> Ed 

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