I am not answering you question but rather a suggestion to subscribe
to the RedHat 5.0 list and post the question there. You question
may have relevance only to 5.0 and not earlier versions.
Thanks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Nathan A., Capt. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 9:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: recompiling the kernal
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> I posted this question a couple of days ago, and I haven't had any
> response so I thought I would ask again, hopefully one of you bright
> people out there can help me with this one.
>
> First off I am running an AMD P-90 with Redhat 5.0 (using the 2.0.32
> kernel). It has 32 megs of SDRAM and 80 megs of swap space.
>
> Problem:
>
> I would setup the kernel through xconfig, save it, and do a make dep;
> make clean. Everything works fine so far. When I attempt to do make
> boot / make zlilo one of 2 things happened:
>
> - it would just stall at init/main.o, it stops using cpu cycles
> (confirmed via top and Eload)
> - or it would segment fault followed by cpp: output ...
>
> During my troubleshooting I downloaded from www.kernel.org the 2.0.33
> kernel and installed it (untarred it placed it under
> usr/src/linux-2.0.33). I then did the same steps as before with similar
> results - that is it stalls/stops at init/main.o (but I haven't had it
> segment fault on me).
>
> I have included some files to help with the troubleshooting. The first
> file (Main_out.out) showes the strace output from doing a make main.o in
> the init directory. The second file (make_out.errors) shows the error
> messages I get when I do the make main.o again in the init directory.
> And finally, zlilo.out is the strace from doing a make zlilo.
>
> I hope this provides enough information to help me solve this problem.
> It has got me stumped!!!
>
> BTW: I have already checked all the links (include and asm) and they
> are indeed correct. Also I have selected 386 as the processor type when
> I went through xconfig.
>
>
>
> Nathan Alonzo Smith
>
>
>
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