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Re: Kernel sizes



At 22:38 2002-07-21, Nyk Tarr wrote:
On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:56:35PM +0200, Ivar Alm wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Tride to compile kernel 2.4.16. Seemed to work fine, used xconfig, selected
> all modules I needed, mostly unselected unessecary ones.
> Compiled to bzImage without problems. I copied the image to /boot/, created
> a symlink from /vmlinuz to my image.
> When I run lilo afterwards, it gives me an error:
> Kernel - Fatal: vmlinuz too large
>
> Why this? What to do?

You probably copied vmlinux across. This is an uncompressed file and not
what you were looking for. Try copying arch/i386/boot/bzImage to
/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16 or similar. You also need to copy System.map to
/boot/System.map-2.4.16

make-kpkg (apt-get install kernel-package) is an easier way to get
kernels installed in the Debian way.

When i ran 'make bzlilo', it installed a much smaller file in my root dir together with the map file. I copied all to /boot/ and created a symlink - voila! lilo accepted it.

But...
make-kpkg? Never looked at it. Are there any howtos describing it in more detail? I managed to boot my compiled kernel, but lacked several important modules that could start my pcmcia etc. How do I find out what modules are important? Seems to be a bit akward to write down all modules I think my current kernel loads, and then mark them at the next compile. Could make-kpkg help in this?

//I
Sorry for all newbie questions, but what else to do? Thanx in advance all... :)

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