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- From: drew@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Help with 0.96c pl 2 Compile Please
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.230647.28735@colorado.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul27.222222.29638@sura.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:06:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.222222.29638@sura.net> vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
- >It's me again... I'd like to thank everyone who helped with my previous
- >slew of questions (you know who you are!). I have a couple more, of course,
- >mostly relating to rebuilding kernels.
- >
- >1. pl2 won't compile "out-of-the-box" (the box being the file on banjo in
-
- Works fine for me. Try removing the /usr/src/linux (or whatever)
- directory, unarchiving it, and when you build it, capture ALL
- error messages - I use
-
- make 2>&1 | tee errors
-
- so that I have a record of all errors and still have a copy in the
- window for immediate perusal.
-
- >2. Currently I have a file called "vmlinux.96c+" in my root directory.
- > /etc/config points to this... is this the kernel? How is it related
-
- Yes.
-
- > to /usr/src/linux/Image. And if I built a new Image yesterday (before
-
- Same format as /usr/src/linux/Image.
-
- > unpacking pl-2) should I "cp /usr/src/linux/Image /vmlinux.96c+"?
- >
-
- No. If there is some bug you didn't notice in the kernel, you
- nolonger have a working system, and must boot from floppy disk.
- Instead, keep the old /vmlinux, put the new one under / as a different
- file, and make /etc/config point at it instead.
-
- My root directory has files in it
- /vmunix
- /vmunix.bak
- /vmunix.<last know totally bug free version>
-
- Where /vmunix is the "current" version of the kernel, /vmunix.bak the
- exact same file, and the other bootable kernel some other known working
- version.
-
-
- > Will getting the right kernel image loaded (please help me do this!)
- > fix the $%@! problems with the ps96b package? Remember, I can't build
- > the kernal now without fixing problem (1), but I did successfully do
- > so yesterday. I may not be loading the kernel I made yesterday, though.
-
- Yes. ps -U uses the /usr/src/linux/tools/system file, if the one
- you are booting doesn't match this, then ps looks in the wrong place
- for important things..
-
-