I found somebody else asking what I'm about to ask. The post was from 3 months ago : http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-newbie/Week-of-Mon-20040913/006005.html .
So anyways, when I try to compile 2.6.8.1 I get an error in the middle of 'make modules' as follows :
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
modpost: vmlinux no symtab?
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 134
make: *** [modules] Error 2
I then went back and looked very carefully at all of the modules I had selected and tried again with the same error. I have also tried compiling 2.6.10 from ppckernel.org also to no avail.
help?
go easy on the terminology, i'm a n00b
thanks