Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-30 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/30/2009 1:11 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: My x86-64 Architectural Programmers Manuals are packed away somewhere so I'll have to wing it here only stating what I know to be factual. 1. The original eight 32 bit x86 GPRs were increased in width to 64 bits 2. Eight additional 64 bit GPRs were

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-30 Thread David Baron
Rerunning lilo did fix it. Time was that the postintall checked lilo.conf and ran as a matter of course. At least let me say "no" if I happen to prefer grub. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-30 at 08:45:14 -0500, David Baron wrote: > Probably is because I do not know what is safe to set to "no". These are > basically stock kernels with whatever would have been in the initrd compiled > in instead. The debs are full of modules, most of which simply take up space. Why is it

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 12/30/2009 12:04 PM: > I've only done custom kernels on 32bit x86 headless server >>> platforms, so maybe mine would double in size if I were doing X86-84 >>> kernels due to 8 byte instruction words vs 4 byte words, > > I expect that this is merely terminology, but I don't

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-30 Thread Mark Allums
I've only done custom kernels on 32bit x86 headless server platforms, so maybe mine would double in size if I were doing X86-84 kernels due to 8 byte instruction words vs 4 byte words, I expect that this is merely terminology, but I don't think that 64-bit x86_64/amd64 architecture exactly has

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-30 Thread John Hasler
David Baron writes: > Probably is because I do not know what is safe to set to "no". These > are basically stock kernels with whatever would have been in the > initrd compiled in instead. Then why not use the initrd? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-30 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 23:21:21 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > 12.2 MB vs 12.5 MB? "much much smaller"? Why do you consider 300 KB to be > "much much smaller"? > > My kernel.deb is 1.5 MB and my vmlinuz is 1.2 MB. That is "much much > smaller". ;) I've only done cus

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:54:36 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > David Baron put forth on 12/29/2009 10:35 AM: > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12781374 Oct 29 18:11 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31- > > davidb_2.6.31-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12785544 Nov 16 22:14 /usr/src/linux-i

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
David Baron put forth on 12/29/2009 10:35 AM: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12781374 Oct 29 18:11 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31- > davidb_2.6.31-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12785544 Nov 16 22:14 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31- > davidb-svn14611_2.6.31-davidb-svn14611-10.00.Custom_i

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 19:14:39 Dave Witbrodt wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, what's the size of your kernel image file? I > >> also use lilo and no initrd. I'm using 2.6.31.1 with Lenny and have not > >> run into any boot problems yet. > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12781374 Oct 29 18:11

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Just out of curiosity, what's the size of your kernel image file? I also use lilo and no initrd. I'm using 2.6.31.1 with Lenny and have not run into any boot problems yet. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12781374 Oct 29 18:11 /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.31- davidb_2.6.31-davidb-10.00.Custom_i386.deb -rw

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:12:37 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Built kernel 2.6.32.3. Get 2.6.32EBDA too big, overlaps lilo 2nd stage > > image or something like that. This is a non-initrd kernel. > > > > Do I have to go back to an initrd (stopped using it because of

Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2009-12-29 at15:47:41 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Built kernel 2.6.32.3. Get 2.6.32EBDA too big, overlaps lilo 2nd stage image > or something like that. This is a non-initrd kernel. > > Do I have to go back to an initrd (stopped using it because of all those > yaird > problems)? > > Or is t

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
David Baron put forth on 12/29/2009 7:47 AM: > Built kernel 2.6.32.3. Get 2.6.32EBDA too big, overlaps lilo 2nd stage image > or something like that. This is a non-initrd kernel. > > Do I have to go back to an initrd (stopped using it because of all those > yaird > problems)? > > Or is there a

Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread David Baron
Built kernel 2.6.32.3. Get 2.6.32EBDA too big, overlaps lilo 2nd stage image or something like that. This is a non-initrd kernel. Do I have to go back to an initrd (stopped using it because of all those yaird problems)? Or is there a lilo parameter I can increase to make room? -- To UNSUBSCR