while installing gentoo on my machine genkernel did not complete, there were error while apparently running "make bzImage", looking through the log, among other error (posted separately), there was the following: gcc -D_KERNEL_ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7/incluse -Wall -Wstrict-prototype -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i386 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=cmd64x -c -o cmd64x.o cmd64x.c console.c: in function `screen_pos': console.c:2966: internal error: Illegal instruction ---text telling me to submit this bug report--- make [3]: ***[console.o] Error 1 make [3] leaving dir /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7/drivers/char make [2]: ***[first_rule] Error 2 make [2] leaving dir /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7/drivers/char make [1]: ***[_subdir_char] Error 2 make [1]: *** waiting for unfinished jobs
errors such as yours usually point to hardware problems, such as bad RAM or overheating. Make sure your case is properly ventilated, and run memtest on your RAM (memtest is available on the most recent LiveCDs)
