Hello all!

I've just installed FC2 on my Dell Inspiron laptop and it went pretty well. I ran into one snag though, I ran "make menuconfig" and selected a couple cryptography options for my wireless card. After saving the kernel changes Fedora said I had to run "make" to re-build the kernel with the new options. But I ran into this error message once I ran "make" :

I ran "whereis main.o" to find that file but could not locate it. Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks,
Jisoo23

I'm attempting to compile a kernel module for pwcx USB cam compression and it gave me the exact same error.

[root@cnesx10165 build]# make modules modules_install
SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'. Stop.
make: *** [init] Error 2
[root@cnesx10165 build]#

The problem is that this happens in all of the following FC2 kernels :
2.6.5-1.358
2.6.6-1.435.2.3
2.6.7-1.494.2.2

This problem is mentioned in three different forums, but nobody has a solution for it.

jisoo23: What happens when you say make dep clean bzImage in a step-wise manner? There should a main.o file in the /usr/src/linux-2.xxx/init directory. I think this is created in the make bzImage step (not sure).

running the suggested command did this:
[root@cnesx10165 build]# make dep clean bzImage
*** Warning: make dep is unnecessary now.
CLEAN init
CLEAN .tmp_versions
CLEAN include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
/bin/sh: line 1: arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s: No such file or directory
UPD include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
mv: cannot stat `include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h.tmp': No such file or directory
make: *** [include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h] Error 1

It removed some asm file that I needed.
Now I get the following error with the missing file:


[root@cnesx10165 build]# make modules modules_install
SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
/bin/sh: line 1: arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s: No such file or directory
UPD include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
mv: cannot stat `include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h.tmp': No such file or directory
make: *** [include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h] Error 1


however, after replacing asm-offsets.s for this kernel with the one from another of my kernels, I now get the same old error of:

[root@cnesx10165 build]# make modules modules_install CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
UPD include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash
HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms
CC scripts/empty.o
HOSTCC scripts/mk_elfconfig
MKELF scripts/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/modpost.o
HOSTCC scripts/sumversion.o
HOSTLD scripts/modpost
HOSTCC scripts/pnmtologo
HOSTCC scripts/bin2c
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'. Stop.
make: *** [init] Error 2

oh yeah, no main.o file yet

Help us!

Hi,
I faced the same problem when trying to compile after patching
Marvell Technology Gigabit sk98lin Driver
I have an HCl branded PC with this card .But no driver for RHEL4

What to do ?????????????/

did you solve your problems??

I have one too when I running make on a Redhat ES

[root@lnxtest02 2.6.9-34.EL-i686]# make
CHK include/linux/version.h
SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/lex.o
HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/parse.o
HOSTLD scripts/genksyms/genksyms
CC scripts/mod/empty.o
MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'. Stop.
make: *** [init] Error 2

Anyone know how to solve this??