Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Dec 1996 04:25:33 -0800 (PST) | From | Trevor Johnson <> | Subject | Re: Linux on a MCA-NCR 80386 |
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> First problem: it's not possible for me to compile the kernel with only > MCA-support include and PCI-support not. GCC complains about things he was > not finding while compiling bios32.c -- so I went and included PCI-support > too. Fine.
This bug with 2.1.16 and 2.1.17 affects anyone not using PCI. I think I've seen patches for it posted to linux-kernel. Check on http://www.ecsnet.com/html/linux_21_kpatch.html for them.
> Next problem: the compile went trough and left me with a about 12kB (no > typo!) big zImage (make zImage). As I don't want to upgrade all the things > mentioned in Documentation/Changes, I've looked around in the source to > find the difference between 2.1.16 and 2.0.25. I found it in > arch/i386/Makefile, line 31. There it says 'IMAGE_OFFSET=0xC0100000' and > I've changed it back to 'IMAGE_OFFSET=0x100000' as it was in 2.0.25. Now I > get a zImage which is about 415kB big. Very nice.
I don't know whether your fix is a good one or not. When I had this same problem, I was advised to update binutils. Fetching version 2.7.0.3 from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC corrected it for me. ___ Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
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