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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Jie Zhou <jiezhou@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about compiling the kernel
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:40:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A6F4BB6.2C305145@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFF0DFC748.A1DDEA9C-ON852569DE.00754674@somers.hqregion.ibm.com>

Jie Zhou wrote:
> 
> Hi, all,
> 
>  I got about 30 warning msgs like this during the process of "make
> bzImage",   is it a fatal problem or not?
>   "Warning: using '%eax' instead of '%ax' due to "l" suffix"

Nothing to worry about.

>  2. after 'make bzImage', if I don't have any module to install, then I
> don't need  to run either 'make modules' or 'make modules_install',
> is this correct?

Correct.

> 3. After I run the /sbin/lilo, it says the new kernel is added to the
> system. HOwever when I restart the system and go into the labeled kernel
> I choose, the system gets stucked after these two lines:
> Loading kernel.......................
> Uncompressing Linux...OK, booting the kernel.
> 
> Can you give me some advice on this. Thanks a lot for your kind reply..

Make certain you compiled the kernel for the proper CPU type (ie. don't
try to run a Pentium II kernel on a 486)

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				Brian Gerst
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-24 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-24 21:27 Jie Zhou
2001-01-24 21:36 ` William Stearns
2001-01-24 21:40 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
     [not found] <OF8F6A4D7C.6EC3D10C-ON852569DE.0077CDA2@somers.hqregion.ibm.com>
2001-01-24 21:59 ` Brian Gerst

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