According to Sony Lloyd Ponton: While burning my CPU. > > I went to /usr/src/linux-2.0.32 and executed make config. I answered yes > to kernel support for PPP..networking and all the necessary options. > That was OK. Then make dep went OK. Make clean also. All the zImage step > seemed OK, but the last lines ended with messages: > Boot sector 512bytes > Set up is 4428 bytes > Syst is 612KB > Syst is too big > make[1]:***[zImage] error1 > make[1]:leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot' > make:***[zImage] error 2 The image is to big like it says, use bzImage instead. You should realy think about making a kernel with loadable modules which will resolve the problem of an Image thats to large, see /usr/src/linux/README and the Kernel-HOWTO.gz in your HOWTO directory for futher instructions. > > ..Then I went to /usr/src/linux-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot and wanted to copy > zImage on a floppy There was no "new" image made. > so I can boot my linux system from the floppy ( I did dd if=zImage > of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192 from usr/src/linux-2.0.32/arch/i386/boot. Then I > rebooted with that floppy and got following : > Loading............. > No set up signature found.. > 1) Could anyone tell me what happened?? > 2) What is missing ?? > 3) Shouldnt I put zImage on floppy as i wanna boot kernel image from > floppy?? > 4)How come I can boot my system with my old boot disks without problem?? > > So..recompile didnt affect anythin on my system right?? > 1) answerd above. 2) Nothing, explaned above. 3) When you make a kernel with modules, then you can use 'make zdisk' that will copy the image to floppy for you, afterwards do; 'make modules modules_install' Or simply use 'make bzdisk'. 4) Because there is a valid Image on them, one would imagen. Your last question is correct, no image was compiled. -- Regards Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
