I have recently downloaded 2.6.21.5. make menuconfig goes through without any issue, and the majority of the compile completes, until the final compression dies with a "Value too large for defined data type" error:

make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=arch/i386/boot/compressed IMAGE_OFFSET=0x100000 arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux
arch/i386/boot/tools/build -b arch/i386/boot/bootsect arch/i386/boot/setup arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin CURRENT > arch/i386/boot/bzImage
/: Value too large for defined data type
Couldn't stat /
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/boot/bzImage] Error 1
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

I have a compiled many a kernel in my day, but have never come across this message in all my travels.

I am running slackware-current kept up to date with swaret-1.6.3-2.

in my arch/i386/boot/compress folder I have:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.4M 2007-06-29 11:20 vmlinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.8M 2007-06-29 11:20 vmlinux.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.3M 2007-06-29 11:20 vmlinux.bin.gz

I also have a vmlinux.bin in the arch/i386/boot folder that is 2.3M

I guess these are slightly larger than the kernel's I've run in the past, but they don't seem to be really all that large. Probably too large for a make zImage, but why do both "make" and "make bzImage" die with that error?

Help. Thanks.

check Documentation\Changes file for linux requirements.

Thank you for your reply.

I have gone through that list one by one (for all that apply to my system, I don't use JFS or pcmcia, etc...) and I am already running more recent versions of all the programs listed.

I am still facing the

BUILD arch/i386/boot/bzImage
/: Value too large for defined data type
Couldn't stat /
make[1]: *** [arch/i386/boot/bzImage] Error 1
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

error. Please advise.

Thanks again.