Okay, I know that the folks a SuSE discourage this, but I compiled a new kernel on my SuSE 7.0 firewall. I mainly wanted to strip out the unecessary stuff and reduce the size. The kernel is 2.2.16 and seemed to compile fine without errors. Problem is that when I boot the new kernel I get: Out of memory System halted I've tried this twice with the same result. I've compile kernels on SuSE machines dozens and dozens of times without a hitch. Has anyone experienced similar problems, or have any hints as to something I may have missed? I can post my .config if that will help. TIA. Ken Hughes -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Hi Ken, The problem is that the kernel is way too big and the computer is a bit outdated. I've had a similar problem with SuSE 6.3 and kernel 2.2.13 on a Iwill motherboard. I stripped down the kernel to the very basics but had to have scsi disk support. With resident scsi kernel never get booted. The only way out was to make scsi module and use initrd. Then it worked. HTH, -Kastus On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ken Hughes wrote:
Okay, I know that the folks a SuSE discourage this, but I compiled a new kernel on my SuSE 7.0 firewall. I mainly wanted to strip out the unecessary stuff and reduce the size. The kernel is 2.2.16 and seemed to compile fine without errors. Problem is that when I boot the new kernel I get:
Out of memory
System halted
I've tried this twice with the same result. I've compile kernels on SuSE machines dozens and dozens of times without a hitch. Has anyone experienced similar problems, or have any hints as to something I may have missed? I can post my .config if that will help. TIA.
Ken Hughes
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Well, I run SuSe 6.2, with kernel 2.2.13, and I would like to updte to a new, supported, Suse kernel (2.2.17 would be nice). Where can I get a rpm from Suse so that I can update my kernel to a newer one Mike --- Michael Smith (Warlock on IRC) http://www.warlock.web.za/ "The software said Windows95 or better... ...so I got Linux" On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Kastus wrote:
Hi Ken,
The problem is that the kernel is way too big and the computer is a bit outdated. I've had a similar problem with SuSE 6.3 and kernel 2.2.13 on a Iwill motherboard. I stripped down the kernel to the very basics but had to have scsi disk support. With resident scsi kernel never get booted. The only way out was to make scsi module and use initrd. Then it worked.
HTH, -Kastus
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ken Hughes wrote:
Okay, I know that the folks a SuSE discourage this, but I compiled a new kernel on my SuSE 7.0 firewall. I mainly wanted to strip out the unecessary stuff and reduce the size. The kernel is 2.2.16 and seemed to compile fine without errors. Problem is that when I boot the new kernel I get:
Out of memory
System halted
I've tried this twice with the same result. I've compile kernels on SuSE machines dozens and dozens of times without a hitch. Has anyone experienced similar problems, or have any hints as to something I may have missed? I can post my .config if that will help. TIA.
Ken Hughes
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Kastus wrote:
Hi Ken,
The problem is that the kernel is way too big and the computer is a bit outdated. I've had a similar problem with SuSE 6.3 and kernel 2.2.13 on a Iwill motherboard. I stripped down the kernel to the very basics but had to have scsi disk support. With resident scsi kernel never get booted. The only way out was to make scsi module and use initrd. Then it worked.
HTH, -Kastus
The newly compiled kernel is around 440k, while the SuSE default is over 800k! I don't have any fat stuff like scsi compiled, mainly networking stuff. Does anyone know if SuSE writes lilo to the mbr by default? Maybe it's not my kernel, but lilo that's hosing me up. <rant> As a side note, I understand SuSE's stance on supporting non-SuSE-default kernel compiles, but it's still the SuSE kernel, with _their_ kernel mods and such. Rather than force you to use an 800k kernel with a bunch of modules you don't want like usb, parallel port, etc., it seems as though they could offer some stripped down modules without alot of the fluff to choose from. </rant> Thanks for all the help! Cheers! Ken -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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