From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:41:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:40:54 -0500 Received: from [64.64.109.142] ([64.64.109.142]:15634 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:40:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6F4BB6.2C305145@didntduck.org> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:40:06 -0500 From: Brian Gerst X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jie Zhou CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: question about compiling the kernel In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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) -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/