Re: Still having a problem building elks kernel

[Dieter Kedrowitsch <dieter.kedrowitsch@gmail.com>]

I just created a new VM and installed Arch Linux last night.  I'll try
installing the bcc x86 packages this evening and cross my fingers that
this distro does the trick.  I wonder what the difference is?


On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Harley Laue <losinggeneration@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I meant to get back to you sooner. I run into the exact same
> thing with Debian, but not Arch Linux.
> Here's the last little bit from Make on Arch which seems to work (I
> don't have the means to actually test it though)
>
> as86 -0  -o boot/crt0.o boot/crt0.s
> (cd ../.. ; ld86 -0 -i   \
>                -t -M -o arch/i86/boot/system \
>                arch/i86/boot/crt0.o arch/i86/boot/crt1.o \
>                init/main.o kernel/kernel.a fs/fs.a lib/lib.a
> net/net.a fs/minix/minixfs.a arch/i86/kernel/akernel.a
> arch/i86/lib/lib86.a arch/i86/mm/mm.a  arch/i86/drivers/char/chr_drv.a
> arch/i86/drivers/block/blk_drv.a \
>                > System.tmp ; \
>                sort -k4 System.tmp > System.map ; rm -f System.tmp )
> tools/build boot/bootsect boot/setup boot/system > boot/Image
> Root device is (3, -128)
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 1596 bytes.
> System is 117788 B (58784 B code, 7728 B data and 51276 B bss)
> System is 66544
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/harley/Source/elks-project/elks/arch/i86'
>
>
> Obviously the ld86 is failing in Debian/Ubuntu, but like I said, I
> haven't looked into why yet other then the fact that it looks like "-t
> -M -o arch/i86/boot/system \" isn't in the Debian/Ubuntu's ld86's
> command for some reason...
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