Re: problems making own boot-floppies for MegaRAID

[Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net>]

I'm having a couple of problems making my custom kernel and putting this
on a rescue floppy.

1) If I use the compact configure file (I load it using make menuconfig,
then go 'make dep' 'make clean' 'make bzImage') I get a 1.9M kernel. I
must be doing something wrong.

2) I managed to make a 1.2M kernel which fitted on the floppy disk.
However the syslinux loader reports a 'corrupt kernel'. I noticed that
when I tried to cp /usr/src/source*2.2.19/vmlinux to /mnt/linux the
machine wouldn't let me - I had to rm /mnt/linux and then copy */vmlinux
to /mnt/linux.

Thanks for any further help.
Rory

On 30/12/01, Stephen R Marenka (stephen@marenka.net) wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:09:34AM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> 
> > Problems:
> > 1)  My kernel is 1.5M, larger than a floppy! Won't this be a problem?
> 
> When you created the kernel did you make zImage, make bzImage, or what?
> I believe bzImage makes the smallest image. If your compressed kernel is 
> bigger than 1.5M, you need to remove some drivers and try again. You 
> probably would want to start with the .config from the compact flavor of 
> boot-floppies.


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