Re: 2.1.92: ALPHA
Paul Slootman (paul@wau.mis.ah.nl)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:34:25 +0200
In article <199804061647.SAA01955@orion.ens.fr> you write:
>In article <19980406133606Z971407-10942+520@vger.rutgers.edu> you write:
>> I've been trying to install 2.1.92 on an AlphaXL system. I've built the
>>kernel with "make vmlinux", compressed it with gzip, and copied it to the
>>floppy disk over the top of the 2.0.30 image that works.
>
>The correct command is "make boot". This is a fairly common gotcha.
>
>Beware that 2.1.92 on an alpha does not seem to be able to automatically
>insert a module without producing a bunch of oopses (and not inserting
>the module). So no kmod. Apart from that, it seems to work well.
Why doesn't make work for me with 2.1.92? It says "separator missing on
line 36" of arch/alpha/Makefile, which is the line
$(shell $(AS) --version >& ./GAS_VER)
I have make 3.76.
Paul Slootman
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