Linux Kernel upgrade

bashirpopal · March 21, 2003, 10:50am

Hi everyone,
I am trying to have a second kernel in my Red hat 2.4.18.
I downloaded the 2.4.9 version and did all the extract and stuff. when I run the command make bzImage I get the following error:

devlist.h:6931: __devices_b1b3 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6934: __devices_c001 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6937: __devices_c0a9 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6940: __devices_c0de causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6943: __devices_c0fe causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6946: __devices_ca50 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6949: __devices_cafe causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6952: __devices_cccc causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6955: __devices_d4d4 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6959: __devices_d84d causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6962: __devices_e000 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6966: __devices_e159 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6970: __devices_e4bf causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6973: __devices_ea01 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6976: __devices_eabb causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6979: __devices_ecc0 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6982: __devices_edd8 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6989: __devices_fa57 causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6992: __devices_feda causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6995: __devices_fffe causes a section type conflict
> devlist.h:6999: __devices_ffff causes a section type conflict
>
> make[3]: *** [names.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/linux/drivers/pci'
> make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/linux/drivers/pci'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_pci] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/linux/drivers'
> make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
>
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

oombera · March 21, 2003, 12:26pm

I don't know anything about this, but I found a few similar situations on google. Here's a mailing list that had a few recommendations.

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You may want to try an AA patch.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.18rc4aa1.gz

From /home/scott/junk/linux/linux:
gunzip ../2.4.18rc4aa1.gz && patch -Np1 -i ../2.4.18rc4aa1

AA patch is a pretty comprehensive patch. Includes many of my favorite
patches including PTE and Himem. Even if it doesn't work. It's a
must-have patch.

Aside from that though, looks like you may have conflicts with your
kernel optimizations and the libc you are using. You could do a few
things in this case.

Copy include/linux to /usr/include or find out what your CFLAGS are at
compile time. Is Dev86 installed?

-Leo Przybylski

>Hello all,
>
>I am running Redhat 8.0 on my laptop using a 2.4.18 kernel. In the interest
>of learning more about Linux, I decided to compile my own Kernel. I downloaded
>2.4.20 from Kernel.org and did a "make xconfig" "make clean" "make depend"
>which went fine. When I got to 'make bzImage' I got the following error
>message:
>/home/scott/junk/linux/linux/include/asm/system.h:148:9: warning: multi-line
>str
>ing literals are deprecated
>timer.c:35: conflicting types for `xtime'
>/home/scott/junk/linux/linux/include/linux/sched.h:537: previous declaration
>of
>`xtime'
>make[2]: *** [timer.o] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/scott/junk/linux/linux/kernel'
>make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/scott/junk/linux/linux/kernel'
>make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
>Of course it shut down after that. Could someone explain how I am getting
>a conflicting 'xtime' error.
>
>Also, all the books I am reading state that I need to softlink this to Lilo
>using Liloconfig. The problem is that I am using Grub2 for this computer
>so running liloconfig is not an option. There is no grubconfig that I can
>find but I only used the "whereis" and "which" command to try and find it.
>
>FYI: I am using grub2 not only to load different kernels but also to load
>Win2K if that makes a difference.
>
>Any suggestions??
>
>Scott