I have RedHat 8.0 installed with the 2.4.18-14 kernel that came with it. I'm trying to install the 2.4.19 kernel I downloaded from Kernel.org.
I extracted the 2.4.19 source file to /usr/src.In the /usr/src/linux-2.4.19 directory I noticed there was no "configs" folder as there is in the 2.4.18-14 directory.

I get as far as make bzImage > It gets as far as the /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/drivers where I get the following error message:
drivers/block/block.o: In function `blk_dev_init':
drivers/block/block.o(.text.init+0xb5): undefined reference to `floppy_init'
drivers/ide/idedriver.o: In function `ide_reinit_drive':
drivers/ide/idedriver.o(.text+0x42ab): undefined reference to `idefloppy_reinit'
drivers/ide/idedriver.o: In function `ide_init_builtin_drivers':
drivers/ide/idedriver.o(.text.init+0x995): undefined reference to `idefloppy_init'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
[root@localhost linux-2.4.19]#

I can view the /drivers/block/block.0 & /drivers/ide/idedriver.0 file with Midnight Commander > in the block.o file I can find the blk_dev_init (with a T before it)and the floppy_init (with a U before it)> tried to select "edit" > the whole format changes > beyond my capabilities.

I checked the /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/drivers directory > looked for "block.0" & idedriver.0 > neither file exists in the stock kernel

Any ideas as to why this problem is happening with kernel 2.4.19? I thought this kernel was supposed to work with RedHat 8.0.

I'm relatively new to kernel building so any help will be appreciated.

Must have been the .tar.gz file. I tried the kernek bz2 file > no problem with that one.

did you do a make mrproper, make xconfig (or config, or menuconfig) make clean then make bzImage?

Those error messages came up during make bzImage with linux-2.4.19.tar.gz file.

Try again with the bz2 file, it should work in that case. To extract type:

tar xfj <filename>