[TriLUG] RH8 & Kernel Compilation

[H Brett Bolen]

GCC segfaulting is a common problem on overclocked 
systems.  Even if a system runs ok with windoes
overclocked, it may not run with linux.

as a test, try lowering the clock ( cpu and memory speed).

good luck.

b

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 14:45, Ken Mink wrote:
> Hi, 
>   I have a fairly vanilla install of RH8, including errata. I need to
> recompile the kernel. The kernel source rpm is installed. I can't seem
> to get a successful compilation, even using RedHat's configs. It fails
> at different points, so I'm really at a loss as to what the problem is.
> Sometimes it will fail during 'make bzImage' and sometimes during 'make
> modules'. The last attempt ended with gcc seg faulting. 
>   The machine I'm trying it on is a Duron based laptop, nothing special.
> I'm also getting the same results with the stock kernel source from
> kernel.org. Any ideas? 
> 
> The steps I'm using: 
> make xconfig 
> make dep 
> make clean 
> make bzImage 
> make modules 
> 
> Ken 
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