Re: Re: Problem with building 2.6 Kernel.

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  Thanks for the help. I'll try these suggestions and let you know what happens. 
 
Thanks. 
Sumit Sharma. 
 
 
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 KR.Foley wrote : 
>Nagaprabhanjan Bellari wrote: 
>>>0xc029e000. 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 
>> 
>> 
>>It seems you have given make zImage. If so, give make bzImage. 
>>I think this shud solve the problem. 
>> 
> 
>Actually, for 2.6 kernels the prescribed method for building has changed. You 
should do: 
> 
>make [old|x|g|menu]config (this step must be done at least once, even if you are 
using an old config) 
>make 
>make modules_install (must be as root) 
>make install (must be as root) 
> 
>Also in order to build a 2.6 kernel you must have updated several utilities. If you 
run RH you can get the proper util RPMs from here: 
> 
>http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/2.6/ 
> 
>Also it is probably worth reading this: 
> 
>http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt 
> 
>kr 
> 
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