Quoting Steven James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > > I had the same issue with FC3, but it resolved when I reduced the size of > the code a bit. For some reason, Fedora's objcopy apparently misses the > real error and then has another problem. > > G'day, > sjames > > > ||||| |||| ||||||||||||| ||| > by Linux Labs International, Inc. > Steven James, CTO > > 55 Marietta Street > Suite 1830 > Atlanta, Ga 30303 > 866 824 9737 support > > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Quoting Corey Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> No, I think I am going to just try Gentoo though. It's time for a >> >> change, I have been using Fedora/Redhat for many years. And I have >> >> heard great things about Gentoo. >> >> >> >> Thanks - Joe >> > Well, just for the record, I've intalled FC6 x86 in QEMU from the DVD >> > iso, and tried both with and without SELinux enabled, and I had >> > absolutely no build errors on several targets (via epia, asus p2b, and >> > a couple tyan boards). I didn't even have to turn off stack protectors, >> > and this is a fully updated system. I'm not sure where your error was >> > coming from or even what it was, sorry. Enjoy Gentoo, cya again in a >> > week or so when you're done compiling the base system ;) >> > >> > -Corey >> >> Hmm very strange. Both Ron and I tried it on FC5 and FC6 with no luck?? >> This was the error: >> >> --------------------------------------- >> cp linuxbios_ram.nrv2b linuxbios_ram.rom >> echo '/*ldoptions*/' > ldscript.ld; cat ldoptions >> ldscript.ld ; for >> file in /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src/arch/i386/init/ldscript.lb >> /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src//cpu/x86/16bit/entry16.lds >> /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src//cpu/x86/32bit/entry32.lds >> /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src//cpu/x86/32bit/reset32.lds >> /root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/src//arch/i386/lib/id.lds ; do echo /\* $file >> \*/ >> ldscript.ld; cat $file >> ldscript.ld ; done >> gcc -m32 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios -T ldscript.ld crt0.o >> nm -n linuxbios | sort > linuxbios.map >> objcopy --gap-fill 0xff -O binary linuxbios linuxbios.strip >> objcopy: linuxbios.strip: Bad value >> objcopy: linuxbios.strip: Bad value >> make[1]: *** [linuxbios.strip] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory >> `/root/LinuxBIOSv2-2564/targets/rca/rm4100/rm4100/normal' >> make: *** [normal/linuxbios.rom] Error 1 >> ----------------------------------------- >> >> Maybe I will try a fresh install of FC6??? >> >> Thanks - Joe >> I would like to report I did a fresh install of FC6 and it seems to be working fine now. I am able to build just about everything exept one. The digitallogic adl855pc. I think the code is broken in the i855pm northbridge somewhere but I can't seem to put my finger on it. Cananyone confirm this? Would someone try to build it for me to see what happens?
Thanks - Joe -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
