Hi, I asked a question last week about why my computer seems to use the CPU a lot during disc access. (Like using find, cp etc) Responses led me to figure out that DMA is not activated. After doing some searching on the internet I found out that I probably should compile a kernel with dma support (or at least compiled in as a module).
My problem is that the resultant kernel image is too big ... at least that is the complain that lilo keeps giving me. From within the source directory I do: % make dep && make clean && make bzImage & % make modules % make modules_install then copy the vmlinux image to /boot, add the appropriate lines to /etc/lilo.conf and then run % lilo which tells me: Fatal: Kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.14-dma is too big It is 7258373 b. When I started it was about 8500000 b. I have gone through make menuconfig a dozen times now, turning off as many options as possible, choosing to build as a module instead of built in where possible ... and STILL I am getting an image that lilo complains about. I don't understand this. Am I doing something wrong? or is lilo wrong? Can anyone tell me the correct way to compile a kernel if I have been doing it wrong. Thanks, Craig
