Cant create boot inmage of kernel. Please Help

[prasanthebenezer]

Hi. I downloaded a Linux Kernel 2.4.20 and compiled it and when i tried making a boot inage i get the error

make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1

"I did the following"

# make oldconfig
# make dep
# make bzImage

gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c
scripts/split-include include/linux/autoconf.h include/config
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=main -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/kernel.h:16,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/wait.h:14,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/fs.h:13,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/capability.h:18,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/binfmts.h:6,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/sched.h:10,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/mm.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/slab.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/proc_fs.h:6,
from init/main.c:16:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm/byteorder.h:14: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm/byteorder.h:28: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:12,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm/byteorder.h:46,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/kernel.h:16,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/wait.h:14,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/fs.h:13,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/capability.h:18,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/binfmts.h:6,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/sched.h:10,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/mm.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/slab.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/proc_fs.h:6,
from init/main.c:16:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:160: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:173: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:186: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/byteorder/swab.h:200: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/list.h:7,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/wait.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/fs.h:13,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/capability.h:18,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/binfmts.h:6,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/sched.h:10,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/mm.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/slab.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/proc_fs.h:6,
from init/main.c:16:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm/processor.h:74: error: array type has incomplete element type
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/fs.h:319,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/capability.h:18,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/binfmts.h:6,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/sched.h:10,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/mm.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/slab.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/proc_fs.h:6,
from init/main.c:16:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp_fs_i.h:26: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp_fs_i.h:27: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8[6]’
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp_mount.h:13,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp_fs_sb.h:13,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/fs.h:704,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/capability.h:18,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/binfmts.h:6,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/sched.h:10,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/mm.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/slab.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/proc_fs.h:6,
from init/main.c:16:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:24: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:25: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:26: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:27: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:28: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:29: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8[]’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:37: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:38: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:39: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:40: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:41: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:42: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:43: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8[]’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:137: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:138: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8[256]’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/ncp.h:174: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘__u8’
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm/smp.h:19,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/smp.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/sched.h:24,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/mm.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/slab.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/proc_fs.h:6,
from init/main.c:16:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm/mpspec.h:86: warning: ‘packed’ attribute ignored for field of type ‘unsigned char[6]’
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/sched.h:24,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/mm.h:5,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/slab.h:15,
from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/proc_fs.h:6,
from init/main.c:16:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/smp.h:29: error: conflicting types for ‘smp_send_reschedule’
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm/smp.h:43: error: previous declaration of ‘smp_send_reschedule’ was here
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux/unistd.h:10,
from init/main.c:18:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm/unistd.h:375: warning: conflicting types for built-in function ‘_exit’
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1

Please help me I m doing this to compile an RtLinux Kernel

[i92guboj]

Are you using gcc 4.x? I guess some parts of a 2.4 kernel will not build with gcc 4.x, so you either need to install a 3.x compiler or use a 2.6 kernel instead (not sure if that's your problem, though).

Is there any reason why you choose to use a 2.4 kernel instead of a 2.6 one?