On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:55:07PM +0200, Ivar Alm wrote: > At 22:38 2002-07-21, Nyk Tarr wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:56:35PM +0200, Ivar Alm wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> Tride to compile kernel 2.4.16. Seemed to work fine, used xconfig, > >selected > >> all modules I needed, mostly unselected unessecary ones. > >> Compiled to bzImage without problems. I copied the image to /boot/, > >created > >> a symlink from /vmlinuz to my image. > >> When I run lilo afterwards, it gives me an error: > >> Kernel - Fatal: vmlinuz too large > >> > >> Why this? What to do? > > > >You probably copied vmlinux across. This is an uncompressed file and not > >what you were looking for. Try copying arch/i386/boot/bzImage to > >/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16 or similar. You also need to copy System.map to > >/boot/System.map-2.4.16 > > > >make-kpkg (apt-get install kernel-package) is an easier way to get > >kernels installed in the Debian way. > > When i ran 'make bzlilo', it installed a much smaller file in my root dir > together with the map file. I copied all to /boot/ and created a symlink - > voila! lilo accepted it. > > But... > make-kpkg? Never looked at it. Are there any howtos describing it in more > detail? I managed to boot my compiled kernel, but lacked several important > modules that could start my pcmcia etc. How do I find out what modules are > important? Seems to be a bit akward to write down all modules I think my > current kernel loads, and then mark them at the next compile. Could > make-kpkg help in this?
/usr/share/kernel-package/README should have everything you need. If you don't have it already, you need to dselect or apt-get kernel-package. This is the package that provides make-kpkg. This also makes deleting redundant kernels and their respective lib/modules/* directories much easier. make-kpkg also makes compiling and installing additional sets of modules (like the old pcmcia-cs modules or alsa-modules) much easier. The .config file in the root of the directory created when you de-tarred the kernel contains the settings you last used to compile the kernel (linux/.config). Of course this file may be hidden by the leading '.'. It may also be in /root/config-*, it certainly will be if you use make-kpkg ^_^. -- /__ \_|\/ /\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
