Mike Duncan wrote:
>
> I have a question about kernel sizes. I recently re-compiled my kernel
> (2.2.5-15, on a RH6.0 box) and had trouble getting the make zImage step
> to work correctly due to the kernel size being too large. Now, I am not
> trying to bloat up my system, but I cannot seem to get a kernel larger
> than 500K to work. However, when I go into /boot I see that the default
> kernel that Red Hat installs is well over 600K.
>
> my system is RH6.0, PII, 4G HD, 96MB RAM.
>
> Any clues as to what the real size limit of the kernel is in Red Hat?
> Or does the distro make a difference here?
>
> Mike
I'm not sure what the limit is, but I know it's around 500K somewhere.
But you can get under the limit by doing one (or both) of these things:
1) Instead of "make zImage" do "make bzImage". bzip makes a smaller
compressed file.
2) Compile some items as modules instead of into the kernel. Things
like sound cards, network cards and so forth have no need to be in the
monolithic kernel.
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