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List:       ilugc
Subject:    Re: [Ilugc] New Kernel compilation error
From:       steve <steve () lonetwin ! net>
Date:       2010-01-27 14:46:57
Message-ID: 4B604F11.2070909 () lonetwin ! net
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On 01/27/2010 04:54 PM, Bharath Kumar wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I installed a new kernel from the redhat repository :
>
> cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel.repo
> [rhel]
> name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug
> baseurl=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
>
> [root@mail 2.6.18-8.el5-PAE-i686]# make
> scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig
>    CHK     include/linux/version.h
>    CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>    HOSTCC  scripts/bin2c
>    CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>    HOSTCC  usr/gen_init_cpio
> /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.1/../../../crt1.o: In function `_start':
> (.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [usr/gen_init_cpio] Error 1
> make: *** [usr] Error 2
> [root@mail 2.6.18-8.el5-PAE-i686]# pwd
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.el5-PAE-i686
>
Do you have the kernel-devel and kernel-headers rpms installed ?

Here is a nice howto about creating custom kernels for Fedora, the steps should 
apply for RHEL kernels too:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel

cheers,
- steve
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