Perhaps this isn't the proper list to send kernel problems to but I not sure where else to post it. Anyways, I have never been able to properly make a kernel...i dloaded the kernel-source kernel-headers .deb packages and then did unpack them...it created a kernel-sources and headers dir in my /usr/src dir. So i went into the /usr/src/kernel-header-etc... directory and did the make config make dep make clean per the Kernel-HOWTO but then when i get to the make zImage it fails out after a bit of compiling with this errors.
./xtract /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback > piggy.o Non-GCC header of 'system' Compressed size 20. gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -traditional -c head.S gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -c misc.c -o misc.o ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfe0 -o vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 00000fe0 misc.o: In function `fill_inbuf': misc.o(.text+0x1ebc): undefined reference to `input_data' misc.o(.text+0x1ec1): undefined reference to `input_len' misc.o(.text+0x1ed7): undefined reference to `input_data' make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/compressed' make[1]: *** [compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [zImage] Error 2 I'm not sure if I am going through the wrong procedure to install a new kernel or if there is an error somewhere else. Sorry about asking such a general question to a debian list.
