My Dilemma,

I have a 4 CPU blade with 16G memory running the latest 2.6.9-34 kernel of RHEL Red Hat AS 4.0 U3. I need to be able to mount UFS file systems from a Solaris machine and a re-compile is required.

I have installed all available source and and even tried changing different directories but the same error appears when attempting bzImage. I also see the make dep command is no longer needed.

Doing a make mrproper also has a problem since there is no Documentation/DocBook/Makefile.


pwd#
/usr/src/kernels/kernel-2.6.934.ELsmp


make bzImage CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
/bin/sh: 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


I have seen this error in other postings but no real solution. I thought I was using development kernel at first but verified I was using correct source files. The source files seem to be missing a few item though.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

You seem to have maybe missed some steps.....

Please review; http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/releas...ata/#sn-kernel
starting at section '7.2.2.3. Preparing for Kernel Development' this does apply to the RHEL source kernel.

Short and sweet (or down and dirty) kernel build steps (after following the instructions from the link above);

make mrproper

cp /boot/kernel-<version_number_here> .config
(copies/makes a working configuration file)

make xconfig (to edit for your hardware and desired changes)

Optional; Edit the Makefile to match your kernel version

make (takes the place of make bzImange and make modules, get used to it.)

make modules_install

make install