Ken Archer wrote: > > Came up with the following error trying to compile a development kernel. The > same kernel compiled fine on my Suse partition. > > as 86 -0 -a -o bboot sect.o bbootsect.s > make [1]: as86: Command not found > make [1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 > make [1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.1.122/arch/i386/boot > > Seems everything went ok till it tried to make the zImage in the boot > directory. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it on Debian 2.0?
Install bin86. bin86 - 16-bit assembler and loader This is the as86 and ld86 distribution written by Bruce Evans. It's a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors (under Linux it's used only to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries). kernel-source-2.0.35 - Linux kernel source. This package provides the source code for the Linux kernel, as well as the scripts that maintain the symbolic link /usr/src/linux). You may configure the kernel to your setup by typing "make config" and following instructions, but you could get ncursesX.X-dev and tk4X-dev and try "make menuconfig" for a jazzier, and easier to use interface. Also, on intel platforms, you may wish to get bin86 (if you wish to compile the kernel sources, that is.) Also, please read /usr/doc/kernel-source-V/README.headers.gz. kernel-package - Debian Linux kernel package build scripts. This package provides the capability to create a debian kernel-image package by just running make-kpkg kernel_image in a kernel source directory tree. It can also build the kernel source package as a debian file, the kernel headers package. In general, this package is very useful if you need to create a custom kernel, if, for example, the default kernel does not support some of your hardware, or you wish a leaner, meaner kernel. If you are running on an intel x86 platform, and you wish to compile a custom kernel (why else are you considering this package?), then you may need the package bin86 as well. (This is not required on other platforms). Noel
