Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: Problems with to large of a kernel | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 01:29:43 -0500 |
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Use make bzImage and/or make (bzdisk or bzfloppy) <- one of the two
-----Original Message----- From: Timm Gleason <timm@n2h2.com> To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Date: Monday, November 30, 1998 6:41 PM Subject: Problems with to large of a kernel
>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 > >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. > >Timm Gleason > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Microsoft gives you Windows, Linux gives you the whole house >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Timm Gleason -- timm@bess.net -- timm@n2h2.com -- http://n2h2.com/ >N2H2, Creators of Bess -- 900 Fourth Avenue, 34th Floor--Seattle, WA 98164 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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