Re: Kernel recompilation nightmare's

Glynn Clements (glynn@sensei.co.uk)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 14:59:29 +0100 (BST)


Jack Lehte wrote:

> The make config,make dep, make clean steps are OK.
> But at make zImage(or bzImage) I got errors.
> Could anyone tell me what are following errors about, and
> what I should necessarily do to go around them:
>
> make zImage
> make[1]Entering directory'/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__-I/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/include -E -D__ELF___traditional -DSVG
> A_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bootsect.S
> make[1]:as86:command not found

This indicates that it can't find the as86 executable (as86 is the
16-bit 8086 assembler, which is required to compile the startup code).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>

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