Quoting Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:57:27PM +0100, Thomas Habets wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 18:10, Otto Solares wrote: > > > you must 'make image' first then use arch/sparc64/boot/image for silo. > > > > You mean sparc, not sparc64? It's a sparcstation 4, not an ultrasparc. > > Like I said, I tried arch/sparc/boot/image. I tried it raw and I tried it > > gzipped, I've also tried it stripped&&gzipped, which got it down to 3.0M, > > 1.3M gzipped (gzip -9) > > Sounds to me like you just need to make some things modules.
I've had to have mine < 1.2 MB gzipped to boot with SILO, anything bigger just fails with the aforementioned error. (Ultra5, silo v1.3.0, kernels: 2.4.21 vanilla, 2.4.21-gentoo-r1, and 2.4.22 vanilla) -sandalle -- PGP Key Fingerprint: FCFF 26A1 BE21 08F4 BB91 FAED 1D7B 7D74 A8EF DD61 http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8EFDD61 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/E/IT$ d-- s++:+>: a-- C++(+++) BL++++VIS>$ P+(++) L+++ E-(---) W++ N+@ o? K? w++++>-- O M-@ V-- PS+(+++) PE(-) Y++(+) PGP++(+) t+() 5++ X(+) R+(++) tv(--)b++(+++) DI+@ D++(+++) G>+++ e>+++ h---(++) r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.sourcemage.org/ http://eric.sandall.us:8880/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
