"Nothing to be done for bzImage..."

[alan]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Phil Meyer wrote:

> Jeff Mutonho wrote:
>> I got the message "Nothing to be done for bzImage..."  during an
>> attempt to do a kernel rebuild on an FC6 machine.This happened when I
>> tried to do a "make bzImage"
>> 
>> Thereafter "make install' failed with a message saying something about
>> "vmlinuz" missing.
>> What could be the problem?
>> 
>> 
>> 
> There is a file called README in the top level of the kernel sources.
>
> % grep make README
>
> always shows the same sequence for building a kernel
>
> make mrproper or make oldconfig
> make (choose configurator)
> make
> sudo make modules_install install
>
> Examination of the makefile should show that there is not a target called 
> bzImage.

But there used to be.  Sounds like someone either has old instructions or 
has not upgraded their memories on kernel building.

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