Suggestion: Have you tried to "make bzImage"? I had similar problems, and my
compile would fail on the last step when placing in the arch/i386/compressed
directory. I don't remember where I found it, but I found bzImage could be
used for "big kernels" when zImage fails as a make parameter.
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:01:59 -0400, owner-linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu
wrote:
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>From: <rjo@jedgar.cam.nist.gov>
>Date: Wed, 10 Sep 97 07:14:42 EDT
>Subject: Error in "make zImage"
>
>Hello all,
>
>I tried to compile a new kernel from a distribution of version 2.1.54
>and got an error, so I figured that there was a problem with the
>distribution. I then tried version 2.1.51 and got the same error, so I
>suppose that I messed up.
>
>Here is what I did:
[snip]
>make[1]: *** [trampoline.o] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.51/arch/i386/kernel'
>make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
[snip]
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