Re: Oops linux 2.4.23-pre6 on amd64

[Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>]

> AFAIK there is only one version that supports compiling to amd64 (only 
> one for debian anyway) - I'm on 3.3.2-0pre4.biarch1.  It is a bit flaky 
> (in 32bit it'll happily do a make -j255 without worrying... going to 64 
> bit needs about 10 attempts to do a single compile because it keeps 
> falling over with internal compiler errors/segfaults/etc.).

That doesn't sound good. Why did you not mention this first, it's unlikely
that such a compiler produces a working kernel.  When the segfaults
are not deterministic (go away when you try again) then you likely
have some hardware problem, like bad DIMMs (run memtest86 for 12+hours to
make sure)

To rule out the compiler you can use the compiler/binutils from

ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/x86-64/supplementary/CrossTools/8.1-i386/

That's rpms for SuSE 8.1/i386, but I suspect you install it on Debian with
rpm2cpio or somesuch. That's an older gcc 3.2 that is known to work.

Then just put /opt/cross/bin in your $PATH and compile with
CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux- ARCH=x86_64

-Andi