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From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
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Subject: Re: problem recompiling the kernel (2.1.5)
To: azhad@azhad.elec.uq.edu.au (Ahmad Azhad)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 07:19:36 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199609172255.IAA00392@azhad.elec.uq.edu.au> from "Ahmad Azhad" at Sep 18, 96 08:55:53 am
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Ahmad Azhad writes:
>
> In the previous mail, Greg Lehey wrote ...
>>
>> I'd guess that your locore.s is hosed, and that you'll see a lot of
>> junk starting on line 156.
>
> Thanks for replying my e-mail.
> The problem is I don't understand assembly language :(

I think you'll find that any change is obviously data corruption.

> And I think there is no changes to locore.s that I'm aware of.

Of course you're not aware of them.  You didn't look.

> It used to work fine (I mean recompiling my kernel).

Yes, you said that.

> I did try to re-install the source,bin and docs. It worked, but when
> I copied back all my /etc/* files, and re-install my own kernel (not
> the GENERIC one) ... it stopped to work (got problem with locore.s
> as I mentioned in my first e-mail).

Well, that sounds less promising.  Where did you install them from?
Can you compile the generic kernel?

> Please help, and thanks in advance.

I'm doing my best.

Greg