fatal error: ... template

fatal error: ... template

[Bill Davidsen]

Perhaps this message might be rephrased, since "fatal" implies that "make 
install" didn't work (I'm typing on that kernel). It also might be a tad 
more helpful, to give someone a hint without reading the makefiles, etc.

End of my build and install:

make -f arch/i386/lib/Makefile 
make -f arch/i386/boot/Makefile BOOTIMAGE=arch/i386/boot/bzImage install
make -f arch/i386/boot/compressed/Makefile IMAGE_OFFSET=0x100000 arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux
make[2]: `arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux' is up to date.
sh arch/i386/boot/install.sh 2.5.44-ac5 arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map ""
fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
oddball:root> exit
exit

Script done on Fri Nov  1 13:24:57 2002

Re: fatal error: ... template

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:34:25PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> sh arch/i386/boot/install.sh 2.5.44-ac5 arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map ""
> fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
> oddball:root> exit
> exit
install.sh contains the following lines:

if [ -x ~/bin/installkernel ]; then exec ~/bin/installkernel "$@"; fi
if [ -x /sbin/installkernel ]; then exec /sbin/installkernel "$@"; fi

So you should look in the distribution specific installkernel files.
I do not see anything in install.sh that could result in the error above.

	Sam