[ale] can't make zImage

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On  9 May, Jim Philips wrote:
> I am running Redhat 5.0 and kernel 2.0.31. The kernel compiles cleanly,
> but whenever I go to make an image for lilo or for a disk, I get the
> following message:
> 
> as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
> make [1]:as86:Command not found
> make [1]:***[bootsect.o] Error 127
> make [1]:Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.31/arch/i386/boot
> make [zlilo] Error 2
> 
> Any clues on how to get over this? I have never been unable to make an
> image after a clean compile.

Install bin86, which will give you as86 and ld86 (real-mode assembler
and linker used to compile some of the bootstrap code for the kernel). 
I'm sure it's part of the standard RedHat package set....

later,
chris