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? However , vmlinuz-2.6.18-build-1 was copied to my /boot directory. -- "Don't take the name of root in vain." Jeff Mutonho Cape Town South Africa GoogleTalk : ejbengine Skype : ejbengine Registered Linux user number 366042
