On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, 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?
The real limit if a kernel made with 'zImage is 448k' the way to get
a large kernel like 2.2.5 default from Redhat is to use make bzImage.
But you will need and should define as many drivers and things used
periodicly as modules to keep the size as small as possable.
The smaller the kernel the less base memory that is used therefor
increasing it working speed. but that is s fune point thier would be
(i imagen) for a newbie very little of no noticable speed differance.
A beter way to find out these things is to read documentation, in this
case /usr/doc/lilo-0.21/README under the section Fatal errors.
I experiment with kernels just about everyday, i have kernels as
small as 300k + all i need as modules, of course not everything can
be defined as modules.
Kernels are like women, fussy ,choosy and stubburn when thier not
treated properly.
>
> Mike
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Regards Richard
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