Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:10:13 -0500 (EST) | From | Mark Szlaga <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.91 compile failure |
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Mike Perry wrote:
> I just tried to compile kernel 2.1.91 (patched from 2.1.88), and I got the > following error: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1/arch/i386/kernel' > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__ASSEMBLY__ -traditional -c head.S > -o head.o > /tmp/cca07945.s: Assembler messages: > /tmp/cca07945.s:946: Warning: Repeat < 0, .fill ignored > /tmp/cca07945.s:1144: Error: attempt to .org/.space backwards? (-4) > /tmp/cca07945.s:1144: Internal error! > Assertion failure in write_contents at write.c line 1086. > Please report this bug. > make[1]: *** [head.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1/arch/i386/kernel' > make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2 > I got bitten by this one a while back, in the config ther is an option for maximum memory in the system, this is set to 1024_*MB*_ to begin with.
It's a safe assumption to say that you do not have more than 1GB memory, so that option should be good at 1024...
I read that option and put 65536 thinking that was the correct size... boy was I wrong.... :)
Mark
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