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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
