Messages in this thread | | | From | CaT <> | Subject | Re: Problems with to large of a kernel | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 17:54:38 +1100 (EST) |
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Timm Gleason wrote the following: > > Having just started messing around with the 2.1.x kernels with the imminent > release of 2.2, I am having quite a time of it. I cannot seem to get a > kernel image to compile that I may use on a floppy disk. First couple of > times through I tried adding in the bits and pieces that I use in the kernel > configuration and it wouldn't compile, the kernel size was to large for a > zImage. Went through and pared out a bunch of stuff, but to no avail. > > So, I remove the directory where I was working and untar a fresh copy. make > mrproper, make menuconfig (and make no changes), make dep, make clean, make > zImage. Too large. > > tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinux.out CURRENT > zImage > Root device is (8, 2) > Boot sector 512 bytes. > Setup is 1276 bytes. > System is 543 kB > System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules. > make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/kernel-devel/2.1.129/linux/arch/i386/boot' > make: *** [zImage] Error 2
how bizarre. My kernel is about 668k. :) What IS it with this kernel size limit? Can a kernel be any size as long as the system can handle it?
> Out of the box, it's too damn big. How is one supposed to add the features > that one needs of the default set of configuration choices is too big to > begin with? > > Am I missing something really obvious here, because I am feeling rather > inadequate about the whole thing right about now.
Can you get rid of any of the defaults? I know my first kernel contained a hell of a lot of stuff I didn't need so I removed it. Now it's bigger then ever... :)
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