[lug] Kernel woes & CD Burning

[Shannon Johnston]

I'll give it a shot! Thanks!


Shannon

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> >>>>> "Shannon" == Shannon Johnston <nunar at iws.net> writes:
> 
> Shannon> Hi All!  I've got a cdburner on my machine. (A Dell Dimension
> Shannon> 4100 running RH 7.0) Unortuneately for me a new kernel
> Shannon> (2.2.17) isn't compiling correctly (error following). I need
> Shannon> SCSI emulation in my kernel in order to get the Burner to
> Shannon> work. Right now I have kerel 2.2.16-3 installed via RPM. Any
> Shannon> ideas on how to get my burner working?
> 
> Shannon> Thanks, Shannon Johnston
> 
> Shannon> make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib' cc
> Shannon> -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__ASSEMBLY__
> Shannon> -traditional -c checksum.S -o checksum.o checksum.S:231:
> Shannon> badly punctuated parameter list in #define checksum.S:237:
> Shannon> badly punctuated parameter list in #define make[2]: ***
> Shannon> [checksum.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
> Shannon> '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib' make[1]: *** [first_rule]
> Shannon> Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory
> Shannon> '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib' make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib]
> Shannon> Error 2
> 
> with redhat 7 you have to use the 'kgcc' package to compile 2.2.x
> kernels. The 2.96redhat compiler won't compile them. ;( 
> 
> So, modify your /usr/src/linux/Makefile to use kgcc instead of gcc and
> it should work fine. ;)
> 
> kevin
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> Kevin Fenzi
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