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Michael Clark wrote:
Lawrence Sayre wrote:
I used xconfig to make a new kernel, and at the end of 'make zImage' I got 2 errors, basically saying that the kernel (system?) was too big (it is slightly over 1 meg).
I can't understand this, since I cut nearly everything to the quick. My stand-alone system has no networking, etc..
How did my kernel get this large?
I tried installing it anyway, and 'lilo' kicked out saying that the kernel (system) is too big, so back to the old kernel, which was the default kernel from my install (which is about 1/2 meg).
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Something that I did on my first few attempts to manually compile my own kernels was trying to install the uncompressed kernel. When I would compile the kernel, I would copy the kernel to /vmlinuz and run lilo.
/usr/src/linux/vmlinuz about 870k, kernel too big
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage about 360k, works great!! :-)
It sounds like this may be the problem. If not, maybe this will save someone else headaches.
mc
That was it. I found zImage right where you said I would. Thanks! The new kernel is working just fine!!!! ----------------------------------------------- Man's mind is his basic tool of survival! Lawrence Sayre <lsayre@integrityonline13.com> ----------------------------------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e