Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758958AbXEMMbb (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 08:31:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757533AbXEMMbY (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 08:31:24 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.232]:62729 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757508AbXEMMbY (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 08:31:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Zb6OfPU3smXuB5oeVS+hkIt2gpH2/WE8vCkLKZc2Uf7tLf9ciZxemJluoBxA11aE73EolLGHcgk1HaVo121lv6kt7xw4wFutEVvR01CQHkqT+iBAIf8p8j/dSHkUe2tLbx4wbVOUt23JguDhJeY/XADP9pVAv78xRtojjZcTK7Q= Message-ID: <5a4c581d0705130531v4679efabgd2ffed96af72862d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:31:22 +0200 From: "Alessandro Suardi" To: "umesh@websurfer.com.np" Subject: Re: upgrade linux kernel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <2417.63.219.2.2.1179056431.squirrel@mail.websurfer.com.np> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2417.63.219.2.2.1179056431.squirrel@mail.websurfer.com.np> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1399 Lines: 38 On 5/13/07, umesh@websurfer.com.np wrote: > I am upgrading kernel from 2.4.20-8(default in RH9) to 2.6.xx. when I do > "make" command it gives some output and finally get error saying that, > > "BFD: Warning: Writing section '.bss' to huge ( ie negative) file offset > 0xc0244000. " > > "Objcopy: arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin: file truncated" > > "make[2]:***[ arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin] Error 1" > > "make[1]: ***[ arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2" > > "make: *** [bzImage] Error 2" A quick round of googling brings up this http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.3/0205.html where the issue was that binutils were too old to compile the newer kernels. More generically, RH9 is now really ancient, and you'd probably make your life much easier by upgrading to more recent distributions. If you intend to stay on RH9, please have a look at the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes file, it will give you a first idea of how much stuff you need to upgrade on RH9. --alessandro "Did you get married but forgot to get divorced ?" (Danny and Dusty, 'The Good Old Days') - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/