Please help... I just attempted to recompile my kernel (2.0.27; RH4.2 if
it makes any difference). Here's a copy of the last several lines of output.
Can someone PLEASE tell me what I did wrong (or, moreover, what I need to do
to fix it)? Did I forget one of the packages or something? Thanx!
--Jeff Overbey
s.o ipc/ipc.o net/network.a fs/filesystems.a drivers/block/block.a \
drivers/char/char.a drivers/net/net.a arch/i386/math-emu/math.a \
/usr/src/linux-2.0.27/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
/usr/src/linux-2.0.27/lib/lib.a \
/usr/src/linux-2.0.27/arch/i386/lib/lib.a -o vmlinux
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 000fffe0
nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( a \)' | sort > System.map
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.27/arch/i386/boot'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.27/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
./xtract /usr/src/linux-2.0.27/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback > piggy.o
Non-GCC header of 'system'
Compressed size 20.
ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfe0 -o vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 00000fe0
misc.o: In function `fill_inbuf':
misc.o(.text+0x1bd8): undefined reference to `input_data'
misc.o(.text+0x1bdd): undefined reference to `input_len'
misc.o(.text+0x1bf3): undefined reference to `input_data'
make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.27/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
make[1]: *** [compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.27/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [zImage] Error 2
