On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Bill Davidson wrote: > Alright. Now I've done it. I needed to rebuild my kernel after-all, and I > didn't make a backup of my working kernel(1 of my finer brain-dead > moments). I ran 'make modules install' instead of 'make modules_install'. I > ran make modules_install afterward. Now I can't boot. It just says 'loading > kernel...' and freezes. > > This is for an lfs system, so I do have another working system. So I > chrooted to my lfs partition and ran 'make menuconfig'. I probly don't need > that but anyway... It appears I've hosed Ncurses. Here's the output: > > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > collect2: cannot find 'ld'
ld is in /usr/bin on my Redhat boxes. Perhaps you've got a $PATH problem? > > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order > >> to use 'make menuconfig' > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > > So here's the question: can I fix this? Also, was this caused by the stupid > make modules install command that I mistakenly entered? i doubt it. Looks like binutils might have gotten hosed on your box, if it can't find ld and can't find dynamic libs. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
