You might also try the use of loadable modules to reduce the
boot image size.
Frank Kamp
Tim Dawson wrote:
>
> Uhm, exactly what it said? The kernel is too big to be built with
> "make zImage", and hence you need to recompile with "make bzImage" instead.
>
> - Tim
>
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > hi:
> > I tried to compile the kernel with ax25 modules extentions and i got the following:
> > does anyone knows what happened.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinux.out CURRENT > zImage
> > Root device is (3, 1)
> > Boot sector 512 bytes.
> > Setup is 3540 bytes.
> > System is 566 kB
> > System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
> > make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.12/arch/i386/boot'
> > make: *** [zImage] Error 2
> > Press any key to continue...
> > LU6HBK
> > Juan Carlos Carreras
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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