Forgot there was a newsgroup for mandrake searched that and found out that
several other people were having the same problem. Turns out you have to
deselect "Enable PII/PIII Extended Fast FPU save and restore support"
under "Processor type and features" in case anybody else has the same
problem.
>
> I have two problems that hopefully somebody out there will be able to help
> me with...
>
> 1) Compile of new 2.2.13-22mdk kernel
>
> On my laptop (a PII266) it keeps failing with this message:
>
> init/main.o: In function `check_fpu':
> init/main.o(.text.init+0x23): undefined reference to
> `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>
> For the heck of it I got the kernel src.rpm package and I tried compiling
> that (using rpm -bb linux.spec) without changing anything and I still got
> the above error message.
>
> Then I tried the compiling the src.rpm on a different machine (a desktop
> w/a single P166MMX) but using a customized .config file and I got the
> same error message. So then I tried just a regular compile (make dep;
> make bzdisk; etc.) on the desktop and that worked. I was able to compile
> the 2.2.13-7mdk kernel with no problems. I am a bit puzzled any ideas?
>
