Re: Image too large to fit into destination with 2.6.0-test9
Quoting Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:57:27PM +0100, Thomas Habets wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 18:10, Otto Solares wrote:
> > > you must 'make image' first then use arch/sparc64/boot/image for silo.
> >
> > You mean sparc, not sparc64? It's a sparcstation 4, not an ultrasparc.
> > Like I said, I tried arch/sparc/boot/image. I tried it raw and I tried it
> > gzipped, I've also tried it stripped&&gzipped, which got it down to 3.0M,
> > 1.3M gzipped (gzip -9)
>
> Sounds to me like you just need to make some things modules.
I've had to have mine < 1.2 MB gzipped to boot with SILO, anything bigger just
fails with the aforementioned error. (Ultra5, silo v1.3.0, kernels: 2.4.21
vanilla, 2.4.21-gentoo-r1, and 2.4.22 vanilla)
-sandalle
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