Hello,

First ... I have a cheap boss who won't pay for the newest
distro of SuSE Linux. What I do have is a $9.95 copy of
SuSE Linux 7.0 with the older kernel. No big deal ... I'll
just download the newest kernel source and recompile.

I don't claim to be an expert so that's why I'm posting the
steps below:

After downloading the kernel source to /tmp ...

cd /usr/src
rm linux
tar xzvf /tmp/linux-2.4.6.tar.gz
mv linux linux-2.4.6
ln -s linux-2.4.6 linux

After this, I used make xconfig to make changes. The changes
are very few ... this box is going to be a news server and nothing
more.

make xconfig

Next was the recompile

make dep
make clean
make vmlinux (this is where I stop)
make modules
make modules_install

After the make dep clean vmlinux, I received a few errors
(belos) but I wasn't sure if they were severe enough to cause
the entire process to bail ... then again, maybe they were.
I could not find the vmlinux image anywhere on the system
after this step (ran a find / -name vmlinux).

Any assistance will be very much appreciated. I'm going
to keep plugging away.

Thanks

> -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple
> -mstring -c -o offb.o offb.c
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.6/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__powerpc__
> -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple
> -mstring -c -o imsttfb.o imsttfb.c
> imsttfb.c: In function `imsttfb_setcolreg':
> imsttfb.c:1277: `i' undeclared (first use in this function)
> imsttfb.c:1277: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> imsttfb.c:1277: for each function it appears in.)
> make[3]: *** [imsttfb.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.6/drivers/video'
> make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.6/drivers/video'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_video] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.6/drivers'
> make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2

If its a brandnew kernel source you should do a to create the symlinks for your architecture as the first step. The kernel is normally found in linux/arch/<your arch>/ (i think)

cheers

Jamie...

yeah, even a small error in kernel compilation will usually be enough to blitz the make.
what version of gcc do you have? you can check with 'gcc --v'... i think - there's a version out there with a broken compiler, which could be what's giving you the problem, plus 2.4.6 needs 2.95 at least, if i remember correctly. everything else looks ok, except that i usually use 'make bzImage' instead of vmlinuz.

i've never really bothered to find what the difference between 'make vmlinuz' and 'make bzImage" is. anyone know offhand?