Hello,
I want to install Gentoo on a IBM Laptop PII 366 MHz.
I did everything as it was said in the manual on gentoo.org, and
everything was fine, but I can't compile the kernel.

When I type
"make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install"
the kernel compiles very long (and to me without errors), and at the end
it says
"vmlinux error 1" and when I type then
"cp /usr/src/linux/...bzImage /boot"
he does not find the file. There is no bzImage in the directory.

What can I do?

Thomas

Thomas Karstensen wrote:

> Hello,
> I want to install Gentoo on a IBM Laptop PII 366 MHz.
> I did everything as it was said in the manual on gentoo.org, and
> everything was fine, but I can't compile the kernel.
>
> When I type
> "make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install"
> the kernel compiles very long (and to me without errors), and at the end
> it says
> "vmlinux error 1" and when I type then

Can you post the lines before that message? There's probably something like
"undefined reference to ...".

> "cp /usr/src/linux/...bzImage /boot"
> he does not find the file. There is no bzImage in the directory.

bzImage can only be created when there are no errors during the build.

Dennis

- Thomas Karstensen <tommyk10151@gmx.de> :
> Hello,
> I want to install Gentoo on a IBM Laptop PII 366 MHz.
> I did everything as it was said in the manual on gentoo.org, and
> everything was fine, but I can't compile the kernel.
>
> When I type
> "make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install"
> the kernel compiles very long (and to me without errors), and at the end
> it says
> "vmlinux error 1" and when I type then
> "cp /usr/src/linux/...bzImage /boot"
> he does not find the file. There is no bzImage in the directory.
>
> What can I do?

You haven't compiled the kernel, so you don't have bzImage
Probably it's an error in your kernel configuration (make menuconfig),
check what you've done and read 'help' when you're unsure.

nicholas

Thank you. Now it works. There were some wrong entries in menuconfig, I
corrected them and it compiled sucessfully!

Thomas