Jeff Mutonho wrote:
On 3/21/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Jeff Mutonho wrote:
> On 3/20/07, alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Phil Meyer wrote:
> >
> > > Jeff Mutonho wrote:
> > >> I got the message "Nothing to be done for bzImage..." during an
> > >> attempt to do a kernel rebuild on an FC6 machine.This happened
when I
> > >> tried to do a "make bzImage"
> > >>
> > >> Thereafter "make install' failed with a message saying
something about
> > >> "vmlinuz" missing.
> > >> What could be the problem?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > > There is a file called README in the top level of the kernel
sources.
> > >
> > > % grep make README
> > >
> > > always shows the same sequence for building a kernel
> > >
> > > make mrproper or make oldconfig
> > > make (choose configurator)
> > > make
> > > sudo make modules_install install
> > >
> > > Examination of the makefile should show that there is not a
target called
> > > bzImage.
> >
> > But there used to be. Sounds like someone either has old
instructions or
> > has not upgraded their memories on kernel building.
once again, the "bzImage" target is not a generic kernel-building
target, it is i386-specific, which is why it can be found in
arch/i386/boot/Makefile and not in the top-level Makefile.
it most definitely *does* exist. simply typing "make bzImage" should
have established that. "make help" would have demonstrated it as
well.
rday
--
Ok I read the README file and i've done the 'make' , 'make
modules_install install' .A new kernel image was created as seen from
the last part of the log:
=========================================================
if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F
System.map 2.6.18-build-1; fi
mkdir -p /boot
ln -f -s vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18
rm -f /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1
install -m0644 vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1
install -m0644 vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-syms-2.6.18-build-1
install -m0664 .config /boot/config-2.6.18-build-1
install -m0664 System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.18-build-1
ln -f -s vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6
====================================================================
What extra step(s) do I need to do ?My grub.conf file still looks the
same as before (i.e does not show an entry for the new kernel).Isn't
it suppose to be updated automatically?
I suspect there are way too many boot loaders for the kernel install
process to make changes to this...
Just copy & paste your current entry, rename it something different, and
update the file names of the kernel image and initrd (if needed)
-B
However , vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1 was copied to my /boot directory.
