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Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 21:03:08 -0400
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: upgrade linux kernel
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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"
> 
You can upgrade a bunch of system utilities, but I'm not sure it's worth 
doing. The system I'm on is RH8.0 patched to run later kernels when my 
development machine went down. I got 2.5.52 to boot, last stable was 
2.5.47-ac6 and I gave up.

Unless you have some major need to upgrade the kernel without the 
distribution, grab the latest RH kernel, or use the latest 2.4 kernel 
available.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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