Seems that instead of a | char something extra (ascii 240) slipped in.
Could be that I just downloaded a buggered version of the kernel
tarbal, so I changed the line to read
kernel_thread(kmod_thread, NULL, CLONE_FILES | CLONE_FS | CLONE_SIGHAND);
^-------------
Using VI, i could see the funny character right over here^ as an extra
'pipe'. Under jed, I could see the offending char.
After that was fixed up, kernel compiled with no problems,
SMP=1,
and make bzImage, and modules etc.
Also used the latest version of modutils (2.1.85)
when building.
Standard config, nothing fancy, except for an NCR scsi adapter.
And as soon as I see:
Booting the kernel...
It reboots the whole machine..
H/W is a Compaq Professional W/S 5000,
dual Pentium Pro,
IDE CDRom,
SCSI Hdd,
and IDE hdd (for Linux).
make zImage is too big.
What now?
Think my kernel dist was corrupted?
I gunzipped the tarball, without any errors, so the tar file was ok...
I then untarred the whole thing, and got the same as with tar xvfz...
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Roelf Diedericks
Systems Engineer / Linux Character
email: roelf@ttdesk.co.za
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