make install failures whilst installing XFS over 2.4.5

[Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I usually install a linux kernel by the following mechanism

untar in appropiate place, rename linux directory to linux-<ver>. Make
a sym link from /usr/src/linux to that dir. cd to /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig ; make dep;make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ;
make modules_install ; 

Edit /etc/lilo.conf to add a new stanza for this kernel

Then type make install

This has worked for a long time for me with stock kernels, linus pre
kernels and ac kernels

When I tried the same with 2.4.5 and the XFS patches with the
following lilo.conf

boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
#default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5-xfs
        label=new
        read-only
        root=/dev/sda8
        append="ramdisk_size=2500"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0
        label=linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/sda8
        append="ramdisk_size=2500"

I got this error when I did make install


objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S compressed/bvmlinux 
compressed/bvmlinux.out
tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CURRENT > bzImage
Root device is (8, 8)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 2400 bytes.
System is 974 kB
sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.5-xfs bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.5/System.map ""
+ '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']'
+ '[' -f /vmlinuz ']'
+ mv /vmlinuz /vmlinuz.old
+ '[' -f /System.map ']'
+ mv /System.map /System.old
+ cat bzImage
+ cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.5/System.map /System.map
+ '[' -x /sbin/lilo ']'
+ /sbin/lilo
Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5-xfs: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I reinstalled stock RH 7.1 and did a plain 2.4.5 upgrade with the
above mechanism [changing the image line to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5] and
it works perfectly.

I can ofcourse copy the image and system map from the kernel source
dir to the right places and run lilo by hand but I am surprised as to
why the usual "make install" mechanisms breaks. Maybe I am doing
kernel builds incorrectly. I can't remember when I started doing it
this way or if this is the correct way

Any insight would be appreciated

Regards, Yusuf

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Yusuf Goolamabbas
yusufg@xxxxxxxxxxxx