Bulilding Kernel-2.4.22-1.2194.nptl error

[Parameshwara Bhat]

On Fri,  2 Jul 2004 15:10:59 -0400 (EDT), <fedora-list-request at redhat.com> 
wrote:
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:19:57 -0500
> From: Fritz Whittington <f.whittington at att.net>
> Subject: Re: Bulilding Kernel-2.4.22-1.2194.nptl error
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> On or about 2004-07-02 08:50, Phil Schaffner whipped out a trusty #2
> pencil and scribbled:
>
>> On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 08:43 -0400, ne... wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jul 2, 2004 at 16:13, Parameshwara Bhat in a soothing rage wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello friends,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to build kernel - for fun,for learning basically - and 
>>>> installed
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You need to read the kernel compiling HOWTO so that you know the steps
>>> to take and it what order. You also need to understand what each step
>>> does. 'make mrproper' cleans out _all_ your configuration that you
>>> make in the build tree. So after running that step, you need to
>>> configure the kernel build. Then do a 'make dep clean bzImage
>>> modules'.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Here's a brief procedure/script that has worked many times:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> # /root/bin/make_linux
>> # Kernel build steps:
>> #   1. Unpack the sources or install kernel-source<version>.i386.rpm
>> #      and cd to source directory (ex: "cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358")
>> #   2. make mrproper
>> #   3. Recommended - copy the .config file from configs/ or from your
>> #      old linux kernel source tree to new kernel tree (may save time,
>> #      if you want to reuse the old settings).
>> #      (ex: "cp cp configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config .config")
>> #      then "make oldconfig"
>> #   4. make xconfig (gconfig for 2.6, menuconfig if not in X)
>> #   5. make dep (not required for 2.6 kernels)
>> #   6. make
>> #   7. make bzImage
>> #   8. make modules
>> #   9. make modules_install
>> #  10. make install
>> #  11. configure LILO or GRUB (install does this)
>> #  12. Optional - make clean (If you want to free up disk space)
>> #  Alternative for 6-11 for 2.6: make all
>> # This script implements steps 6-11 for FC2 (all one logical line)
>> # May want to add make flag "-j N", N ~= 3...6 to run parallel jobs
>>
>> (make && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install \
>> && make install) >& /tmp/MakeKernel.log
>>
>> # Check the log for errors, edit grub.conf as desired, reboot or repeat.

Thank you both. I built and am running the kernel.

I was following every step in right order, but making a mistake.At the 
stage of 'make xconfig', I copied a previously saved config file and 
thought thats equivalent to doing 'make xconfig'. Actually one needs to do 
a 'make oldconfig' which generates files required for 'make dep'
>>
>>
> What about running mkinitrd?

Not required really. 'make install' comprises it.
>
Parameshwara Bhat


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