Kernel Compile

Kernel Compile

[Mike Hill]

What does the .config file look like these days for a successful compile?
Alex?  Thomas?

Which version of egcs is recommended?  Mine's still the one from hardhat
5.1.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Kernel Compile

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 12:07:07PM -0500, Mike Hill wrote:
> What does the .config file look like these days for a successful compile?
> Alex?  Thomas?

I've uploaded the .config, I've used for the vmlinux-indy-990212.gz. URL is:

ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/test/vmlinux-indy-990212.config

> Which version of egcs is recommended?  Mine's still the one from hardhat
> 5.1.

I'm still using a gcc-2.7.2.3 cross compiler.

Thomas.

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Kernel compile

[pshook]

Not sure if this is the correct newsgroup, if not can you direct me to
the right one?

I am trying to compile my kernel for RH7.3. It doesn't generate any
errors, but it fails to find/load eth0 and vfat. It won't go past
starting system logger and has many no such file or directory statements

after the first fail which is eth0.

Is there a way to set the make xconfig back to a default or what the
original kernel on my system is? I can still boot with the original
kernel but not the new one.

Please help I'm an extreme newbie.

Re: Kernel compile

[terry white]

on "3-11-2003" "pshook" writ:

: Not sure if this is the correct newsgroup, if not can you direct me
: to  the right one?

... the linux-admin list is VERY helpful.


: I am trying to compile my kernel for RH7.3. It doesn't generate any
: errors, but it fails to find/load eth0 and vfat. It won't go past
: starting system logger and has many no such file or directory statements

    from the sounds of it, you missed including something with regard to
networking, and vfat in particular.


: Is there a way to set the make xconfig back to a default or what the
: original kernel on my system is?

    when you run the config program, it creates a config file.  on RH-6.x
this is named ".config" , and on RH-8.0 "config".  if you 'rm' that file,
config uses its defaults values.  i do not know which name used for
RH-7.x.
    i've made a habit of keeping the config files for my most recent
builds.  typically, i call them "config-ST", where 'S' is the secondary
version number, and 'T' its tertiary counterpart.  these i keep in the
root of the source tree; specifically, "/usr/src". i use the following
script to report differences in them:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	#       find difference between ./.config files for linux

	fgrep -v \# config-[0-9]* | sort -t ":" -k 2,2 \
	| uniq -s 10 -u | sort > config.diff

    note however, this would be useless if going from a 2.2.x to a 2.4.x
kernel ...


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    if i have to , i guess ...

Re: Kernel compile

[Shailesh Hingole]

did you also run the following commands while compiling the kernel

make modules
make modules_install

if you have then i think you have not included the appropriate support for
your ethernet card into the kernel. Boot your normal redhat kernel and
give the lsmod command to see all the loaded modules. 

You need to make sure that all these modules are also compiled with your
kernel.

As far as i know redhat doesn't create the config file for the
configuration that it installs. 

hope that helps..


Shailesh

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, pshook wrote:

> Not sure if this is the correct newsgroup, if not can you direct me to
> the right one?
> 
> I am trying to compile my kernel for RH7.3. It doesn't generate any
> errors, but it fails to find/load eth0 and vfat. It won't go past
> starting system logger and has many no such file or directory statements
> 
> after the first fail which is eth0.
> 
> Is there a way to set the make xconfig back to a default or what the
> original kernel on my system is? I can still boot with the original
> kernel but not the new one.
> 
> Please help I'm an extreme newbie.
> 
> 
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kernel compile

[Allison]

Hi,

Is it possible to compile a 2.4.20 kernel on a 2.6 system ?
And use the new image successfully ?

thanks,
Allison

Re: kernel compile

[Alexander Samad]

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Hi

Should not be a problem as the compilation doesn't use any part of the
running kernel. As long as you have the required components

Alex

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:09:18PM -0400, Allison wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to compile a 2.4.20 kernel on a 2.6 system ?
> And use the new image successfully ?
> 
> thanks,
> Allison
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Re: kernel compile

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:09:18PM -0400, Allison wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to compile a 2.4.20 kernel on a 2.6 system ?
> And use the new image successfully ?

It doesn't matter what the system you are compiling on is running.

> thanks,
> Allison

cu
Adrian

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Re: kernel compile

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 20:17 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:09:18PM -0400, Allison wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is it possible to compile a 2.4.20 kernel on a 2.6 system ?
> > And use the new image successfully ?
> 
> It doesn't matter what the system you are compiling on is running.

... as long as you have a modutils installed that can deal with 2.4
kernels. Not all distros that ship 2.6 ship a modutils that does...