Re: [Sheflug] Installing Kernel Problem

["Chris J/#6" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Hiya
>
> Are you doing a "make clean" before you do make bzImage?
>
> firstly
>
> 	"make menuconfig" (this is optional if you already have a .config)
> then
>
> 	"make clean dep bzImage modules modules_install"
>
> which cleans the source tree, sorts the dependencies, builds the kernel,
> builds the modules and installs the modules respectively. phew.
>
> Everything is in the Kernel-HOWTO.
>

Good advice, but it is a kernel bug (at least the second 2.4 kernel released
that had a problem ... the first in my experience, 2.4.13 (I think it was)
had a buggy line printer driver which failed to build).

As someone on LKML mentioned - it seemed there was an influx of changes made
between the last -pre and the main release with no testing of the changes.
Bit of a quality control issue. Hopefully 2.4.15 (when released) will work
first time, and they won't make any changes between the last -pre and the
release proper :-)

See my post yesterday though about fixing the 2.4.14 problem :)

Chris...

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