RE: RH 6.0 kernel Image

Serge Melnichenko (pp@stac.ee)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 18:55:29 +0300


I had this with AMD 486DX4-100. Try to disable secondary cache.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Riley Williams [mailto:rhw@MemAlpha.CX]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 6:35 PM
> To: Alex Rojo
> Cc: ramudu; linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu;
> linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: RH 6.0 kernel Image
>
>
> Hi Alex.
>
> >> I recently installed RH 6.0 (Hedwig) in my machine.
>
> >> I tried to make a new kernel image with sound capabilities.
> >> When i ran "make config" it is fine. Then, when i tried to run
> >> "make dep" i first got timestamp errors on scripts/mkdep.c file.
> >> I touched it. Then i got the following error
>
> >> ----- Starts here --------
> >> gcc: Internal compiler error: program as got fatal signal 11
> >> make: *** [scripts/mkdep] Error 1
> >> ----- Ends here --------
>
> >> What could be the reason?
>
> > This used to be caused by hardware (memory or disks) problems,
> > check your computer.
>
> Also check your processor - I had this on one system with a Cyrix
> 486sx/33 CPU where it turned out that the CPU was claiming to have
> some facility it didn't actually have, and that was tripping gcc up. I
> never did find out precicely what facility was involved, but replacing
> it with an AMD 486sx/33 CPU cured the problem, although replacing it
> with another (four) Cyris 486sx CPU's didn't help...
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
> PS: The kernel versions page is now back online at the URL below, and
> includes separate sublists both for each kernel series, and for
> each year of development.
>
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> | development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is
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> bet someone |
> | else has already done so and is just about to release their
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> * http://www.memalpha.cx/Linux/Kernel/
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