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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: umesh@websurfer.com.np
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: upgrade linux kernel
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 21:03:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4647B54C.6080806@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2417.63.219.2.2.1179056431.squirrel@mail.websurfer.com.np>

umesh@websurfer.com.np wrote:
> I am upgrading kernel from 2.4.20-8(default in RH9) to 2.6.xx. when I do
> "make" command it gives some output and finally get error saying that,
> 
> "BFD: Warning: Writing section '.bss' to huge ( ie negative) file offset
> 0xc0244000. "
> 
>  "Objcopy: arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin: file truncated"
> 
> "make[2]:***[ arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin] Error 1"
> 
>  "make[1]: ***[ arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2"
> 
>  "make: *** [bzImage] Error 2"
> 
You can upgrade a bunch of system utilities, but I'm not sure it's worth 
doing. The system I'm on is RH8.0 patched to run later kernels when my 
development machine went down. I got 2.5.52 to boot, last stable was 
2.5.47-ac6 and I gave up.

Unless you have some major need to upgrade the kernel without the 
distribution, grab the latest RH kernel, or use the latest 2.4 kernel 
available.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-14  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-13 11:40 upgrade linux kernel umesh
2007-05-13 12:31 ` Alessandro Suardi
2007-05-14  1:03 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]

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