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From: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: conf.o: Undefined symbol _lptioctl referenced from data segment
Message-ID: <1993Jul17.170111.5741@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 17:01:11 GMT
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I'm reconfiguring my kernel to use lpt, and of course I'm having problems.

On the first run through, things compiled ok, but when I tried to boot I
was greeted with

     loader overlaps bss, kernel must bzero

I couldn't find anything in the manual about this error, so I deleted
everything in the /sys/compile/ERATO directory, ran config, made dependencies
and made, and at the end of the build I got

     conf.o: Undefined symbol _lptioctl referenced from data segment

Why would the kernel build once (though apparently wrongly) but not the 
second time?  And more importantly: How can I get it to compile so my 
-- 
John D. Boggs     jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
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