Re: kernel Image Size.
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:04:21AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: What FF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest kernel so far is 808,536 in size. My largest was over a Meg. Help ! All I maked was to hear Window Maker! That's all Try installing the kernel-package and using make-kpkg to compile the kernel. It's the _right_ way to do it under Debian, and I've _never_ and any problems with it. BTW, my kernel (2.2.3) is 664Kb compiled with egcs. Under gcc it was only 652Kb. -- Pedro Guerreiro (aka digito)([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your own way.
kernel Image Size.
Ok, I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still too large. So I tried to make bzImage - STILL TOO LARGE!! What FF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest kernel so far is 808,536 in size. My largest was over a Meg. Help ! All I maked was to hear Window Maker! That's all Roderick P. Person ? 454-2616 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel Image Size.
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: Ok, I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still too large. So I tried to make bzImage - STILL TOO LARGE!! What FF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest kernel so far is 808,536 in size. My largest was over a Meg. Help ! All I maked was to hear Window Maker! That's all make menuconfig; make dep; make clean; make zImage; And if you use modules... make modules; make modules_install Those are the steps you have to take to make a kernel. make zImage will compress the kernel image so that it can fit in memory. -Justin Akehurst
Re: kernel Image Size.
Justin Akehurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: | | Ok, | | I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to | mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still | too large. So I tried to make bzImage - STILL TOO LARGE!! | | What FF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest | kernel so far is 808,536 in size. My largest was over a Meg. Help ! All I | maked was to hear Window Maker! That's all | | make menuconfig; | make dep; | make clean; | make zImage; | | And if you use modules... | | make modules; | make modules_install | | Those are the steps you have to take to make a kernel. make zImage will | compress the kernel image so that it can fit in memory. Or, you can bypass all this crud with the make-kpkg Debian utility. It does all these steps for you, and it puts together a nice kernel-image*.deb file which you can install manually with dpkg -i. Not only is it just nicer to use, it's also the way it's supposed to be done under Debian, i.e., it's the Debian Way (TM). Gary
Re: kernel Image Size.
What are you putting in that kernel? I have my 2.0.34 compiled with vfat/dos/iso9660 support, SB16, some other options, and it's 360K only, in the bzImage format. GO through the kernel and unmark all the stuff you don't need. I think the kernel size limitation is in the docs. If my memory serves me well, it's somewhere in 500M range for compressed kernel. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Re: kernel image size...
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Alan Su wrote: just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in /usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same size image? pass :) -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Aug 8 21:11 zImage.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Aug 8 21:17 zImage.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Aug 8 21:23 zImage.6 Excuse the butting in, but I am right by saying these are 6 minute compiles? phew... I wish I had a PII :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - WinErr: 001 Windows loaded - System in danger - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
kernel image size...
just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in /usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same size image? i'm currently burning in a computer by sticking it in such a loop, and i'm saving the images, just to tax the filesystem a bit. this is a partial listing of the images i've saved: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Aug 8 23:25 zImage.26 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Aug 8 23:31 zImage.27 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Aug 8 23:37 zImage.28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Aug 8 23:43 zImage.29 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Aug 8 21:05 zImage.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Aug 8 23:49 zImage.30 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Aug 8 23:55 zImage.31 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Aug 9 00:01 zImage.32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48 Aug 9 00:07 zImage.33 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411120 Aug 9 00:14 zImage.34 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411121 Aug 9 00:20 zImage.35 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47 Aug 9 00:26 zImage.36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411122 Aug 9 00:32 zImage.37 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 Aug 9 00:38 zImage.38 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411121 Aug 9 00:44 zImage.39 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Aug 8 21:11 zImage.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411121 Aug 9 00:50 zImage.40 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Aug 8 21:17 zImage.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Aug 8 21:23 zImage.6 the file sizes are pretty close, but the're not identical. of course, i haven't actually tried any of these, but i have no reason to suspect that they won't work. am i right, or should i conclude that this machine has problems? thanks. -alan
Re: kernel image size...
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 01:00:46AM -0700, Alan Su wrote: just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in /usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same size image? i'm currently burning in a computer by sticking it in such a loop, and i'm saving the images, just to tax the filesystem a bit. this is a partial listing of the images i've saved: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Aug 8 23:25 zImage.26 the file sizes are pretty close, but the're not identical. of course, i haven't actually tried any of these, but i have no reason to suspect that they won't work. am i right, or should i conclude that this machine has problems? thanks. The kernel image contains the date/time of compilation, and they're also compressed. It's possible that due to small changes in the data to be compressed (the date is the only thing that will change I think) the compression algorithm produces a result of different size. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
