thanks to Mike. I've installed the bin86 package, run 'make bzImage' & lilo again and set the system up to boot. Is the bin86 package only needed for compressing the kernel image, or is it needed to "make dep", "make modules" etc?
thanks Andrew ------------------------------------------------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Liaison Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation" -----Original Message----- From: Mike Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:40 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO & Kernel Image too big --> Make error Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi again > > I just ran bzImage again, and the last few lines of output show this error: > > "make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot" > as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s > make[1]: as86: Command not found > make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot" > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2" > > I'm guessing that the second line there is the problem, and that the rest of > the problems flow from there. Does anyone know what would cause this error? This is another common one to run into. The package you need to install is the bin86 package. as86 is the assembler used on the x86 platform. It's not a required package, as not everyone uses the kernel on an x86 machine. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E | for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
