This means you should have a program called /usr/bin/as86. If you don't,
install bin86-0.4-3.i386.rpm from your RH5 distribution (as root: rpm -i
<cdmountpoint>/RedHat/RPMS/bin86-0.4-3.i386.rpm ).
CSD
> I´m having a little trouble compiling a custom kernel for my RedHat 5.0
> system. I am trying to get generic scsi support for my atapi cd-r so I
> can get it to work with xcdroast. I select the kernel modules, etc.
> with make xconfig, then I did a make dep, make clean and finally a make
> boot. Here, the progam exits before finishing the make zImage. I get
> an uncompressed kernel in the form of a file called vmlinux, but I don´t
>
> get the compressed kernel. I tried a make zImage myself, but I get the
> same error as I got after make boot:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot'
> as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
> make[1]: as86: Command not found
> make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [zImage] Error 2
>
> I´ve never had to/tried to build a custom kernel before, so I am at a
> bit of a loss here as to what to do. If someone could give me a hand,
> I´d appreciate it.
>
> --
> Your faithful narrator,
> Roberto Pavan
> rpavan@physics.ubc.ca
>
> If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of
> two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
> -- Salman Rushdie, "The Moor's Last Sigh"
>