Hey I've been trying to compile my own kernel for a few nights now and I haven't had much luck. First time it froze at boot then etc etc more stuff happened so I formatted and started over.

So this time I've been trying to compile kernel 2.4.21 under Redhat 9 and I redid the config file using "make xconfig" as usual. I set my settings up etc etc. Then I do "make clean" then I run "make bzImage" and it goes for awhile then I get the following and I'm not to sure on what it means. I know its config related. But any ideas on what its related too? The contents of the error are as follows:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/lib'
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386
/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_m
ounts.o \
--start-group \
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/f
s.o ipc/ipc.o \
drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/n
et/net.o drivers/char/agp/agp.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o d
rivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/
video/video.o drivers/usb/usbdrv.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/input/inputdrv.
o \
net/network.o \
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/lib/lib.
a /usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
--end-group \
-o vmlinux
drivers/char/drm/drm.o(.text+0x74b8): In function `sis_fb_alloc':
: undefined reference to `sis_malloc'
drivers/char/drm/drm.o(.text+0x7566): In function `sis_fb_alloc':
: undefined reference to `sis_free'
drivers/char/drm/drm.o(.text+0x75d9): In function `sis_fb_free':
: undefined reference to `sis_free'
drivers/char/drm/drm.o(.text+0x79ff): In function `sis_final_context':
: undefined reference to `sis_free'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
[root@dhcp-511-10 linux-2.4.21]#



"end error"
Any help with this would be greatly appriciated.
O and also. Last time I creted a kernel I couldn't find VMLINUZ. I could find vmlinux, bzImage, and system.map easily. But this isn't too important right now.

Well it could be the version of GCC you're using, I don't know much about Red Hat, but I got a similar thing with i810_audio in Debian, as far as I mind. It's related to your console framebuffer settings. (I think it's under Console Drivers in xconfig). Presumably you have a SIS graphics card / onboard graphics. You could try just choosing the standard VESA driver here (beside the VGA 16 color graphics console option, which'll give you a nice penguin at boot time). as these is just the command line drivers (by which I mean nothing to do with X). Failing that, do gcc --version and post the output. Then hope someone who knows more about GCC versions than I do comes along.

well i noticed in your explanation you didn't note mention of make dep, so i don't know if you missed that step or just forgot to mention that you did it...so just take a peek at this and see if there was any steps you missed.

Thanks, The other day I just became very frustrated and re-configured the config file and it seemed that I did somthing different before because this time it worked fine with no errors.