On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 09:54:59AM +0200, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > Hi all. > > I have problems building a sparc32 kernel. My latest approach: > > Sparcstation 20 with a new Debian 4.0 installation (latest packages from > archive.debian.org). > > This installation comes with kernel > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-sparc32 > after gunzipping this: 2.2 MB > > apt-get install linux-source-2.6.18 and make with > /boot/config-2.6.18-6-sparc32 as .config : > > arch/sparc/boot/image is 3.0 MB > (and vmlinux is 3.9 MB) > > 3.0 MB is too big to boot it. > > What do I do wrong?
Debian-provided sparc32 kernels were stripped of all unnecessary symbol information to bring their size down. This post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/02/msg00069.html contains the command you need to run on the image after you build it yourself. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov [email protected] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
