Hi Y'all,

I just tried to compile the new 2.4.19 Linux Kernel for my Mandrake 8.2 distro..well, everything went just fine, i put the tarball into the /usr/src directory, unpacked it, went ahead with make xconfig, when I was done with that i went ahead with make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make install....well, so far , so pleased..the kernel started the comiling process and everything seemed just fine..about 20 minutes later i return to my machine, and the last line on the shell says:

make *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Well, I knew that something went wrong from that point, and when i took a look at the /boot directory there was no entry for my newly compiled 2.4.19 kernel...so, anybody got an idea what went wrong?


Thanks in Advance,

Dominik

Well, it failed somewhere along the line! I always do:
make xconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make bzlilo
but I don't know whether the highlighted step is all-important.

Well, I'm at work right now, but I'll try it as soon as I'm at home..maybe I'll know what exactly went wrong then

You used && after every command. So once one fails, the other commands won't be executed. From your error message I feel it failed somewhere in make bzImage. Try doing one after other as Thymox suggested.
--Sarin

I think using the command

make mrproper

might be preferable to make clean. It appears to do more cleaning up. Hey, no harm in using both!

Bert