While you're at it, you might also want to download kernel 2.0.33 from
ftp.kernel.org or where ever. 2.0.33 will probably also fix your problem
with the kernel build, who knows.
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Barry Ferg
bdf@circon.com
-----Original Message-----
From: G. Crimp <ye416@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>
To: UBC Linux <linux@ee.ubc.ca>
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 3:53 AM
Subject: make zImage - `objdump -k'
>Hi,
>
> I've got a kernel problem. (Debian 1.3.1, kernel 2.0.30) I am
>trying to remake the kernel to include sound support. There is an error
>coming out of some script or other file in
>/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/. objdump (whatever that is) is
>being called with an `-k' option. This option doesn't exist according to
>make zImage (verified in `man objdump'). An excerpt from the make zImage
>output is tacked on at the end.
>
> I have tried several times to redo everything from make mrproper,
>and I get the same thing each time. This is quite befuddling as I made a
>custom kernel when I first installed, and didn't get this error (same
>source tree). So why now is something trying to invoke `objdump -k' ?
>
> Even more befuddling -- when I try to make a kernel exactly the same
>as the one I am using now (ie., without sound support, from a saved
.config)
>I DO get this error.
>
> Can anyone help me (figure this out and) correct this situation ?
>
> Here's the make zImage output excerpt:
>
>...
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Gerald Crimp