On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Lars Petterson wrote:
> > tools/build bootsect setup compressed / vmlinux.out CURRENT > zImage
> > Root device is (3,6)
> > Boot sector 512bytes
> > Setup is 4392bytes
> > System is 552kB
> > System is too big
> > make[1]: ***[zImage] Error 1
> > make[1]: leaving directory '/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> > make: ***[zImage] Error 2
> >
> > snip...
> >
> > What does this mean? How can I sort it?
>
> You can sort it by using "make bzImage" instead of "make zImage"
Taking the risk of being a nitpicker, I'd like to make a small
correction...
You can *TRY* to sort the problem out by using "make bzImage". What that
does is it uses a better compression algorithm to compress the kernel
image (the Burrows-Wheeler blocksorting text compression algorithm if I'm
not completely mistaken, see "man bzip2") so you can have a larger kernel
image but not arbitrarily large. Eventually you run into the same
problem...
My recommendation is modules. I have _everything_ as modules in my kernel
except what is needed to mount my root partition (ie. IDE and ext2
support). It takes some work to sort out conf.modules etc. but IMHO the
advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
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