inemes wrote:
Sydney, 24 November 1998 - 10:15 AM
It is a very good question "...what constitutes too big" !!! I too compiled smaller kernels than the ones that come with SuSE, and I was getting the "... too big message". Interesting.
Hubert Mantel recently said that the vmlinuz image had to fit under the old dos 640k limit, I guess due to bios limitations? I am completely baffled by all the posts I see about the "too big error". Is everyone including alot of uneeded functionality into their kernels? I have a nice scsi kernel, with ppp built in, and it is only around 460k, and that is just using zImage. It is a little over 1 meg uncompressed. If people need to use bzImage, the kernels must be up around 2 megs when uncompressed. People must be adding useless stuff to the kernel not knowing what it's for. Or else they are trying to copy the uncompressed vmlinux kernel to root, then trying to run lilo on it. What's going on? I feel like I'm missing something with all this talk of make bzImage. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e