"Nothing to be done for bzImage..."

Jeff Mutonho ejbengine at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 07:35:15 UTC 2007


On 3/22/07, John Wendel <john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil> wrote:
> Phil Meyer wrote:
> > Jeff Mutonho wrote:
> >> On 3/21/07, John Wendel <john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> "make install" runs mkinitrd automagically, you don't need to do it.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> John
> >>
> >> It seems not to be doing it
> >>
> >
> > Just for completeness:
> >
> > Are you running 'make modules_install install' as root?
> >
> > I has always worked for me. :(  Although I have not tried with the
> > latest kernel.
> >
>
>
> I have to confess that I don't use a Fedora kernel (I'm running
> vanilla 2.6.20.3 from kernel.org), so I should just shut up.
>
> I can however report that make, make modules_install, make install is
> all I have to do here.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>

I decided to try 'make rpm' which created the kernel rpm which I installed.
I then ran ' new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install
2.6.18-build-1'  which  created my initrd and added an entry to my
grub.conf file.However on rebooting , the new kernel failed to load
with the  same error message as before :
"Error 13:Invalid or unsupported executable format
 Press any key to continue....."

Pressing any key redirects me back to the grub menu, and selecting the
older kernel still works.
Maybe the source rpm  I downloaded
(kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.src.rpm)is wrong ?When I did

$rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|grep
kernel|sort

I got :
kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i386
kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686

for the currently installed kernel(i.e the one installed by
Anaconda).Isn't kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.src.rpm is the correct source
rpm , right?

Here's my processor info :
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 6
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
stepping        : 2


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Jeff  Mutonho
Cape Town
South Africa

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