[ale] Newbie Question - Updated

[Cary Wagner]

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Well, I am definitely learning.  I guess I was not following the right
kernel procedures and was not using the right file.  I had some kernel make
failures that resulted in a complete re-install to clean up my system as
files were missing (as86, ld86, etc..).

Here is the account of the actual problem (i.e. what the screen says):

<snipped>
make[2]: Entering directory
'/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
gcc -I//usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -o xtract xtract.c
gcc -I//usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -o piggyback
piggyback.c
./xtract /usr/src/linux-2.0.36/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback > piggy.o
Non-GCC header of 'system'
Compressed size 20
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I//usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -traditional -c head.S
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I//usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -O2 _DSTDC_HEADERS   -c
misc.c -o misc.o
ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfffe0 -o bvmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o
ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 000fffe0
misc.o(.text+0x1bd8): undefined reference to 'input_data'
misc.o(.text+0x1bdd): undefined reference to 'input_len'
misc.o(.text+0x1bf3): undefined reference to 'input_data'
make[2]: *** [bvmlinux] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
make[1]: *** [compressed/bvmlinux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2


Can anyone make sense of this?  I cannot find anything about this error and
no one on the IRC channels that I have talked with knows enough about making
kernels to help!

Thanks in advance!!!

Cary

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