Re: New kernel images...
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:11:39PM +0100, Janos Sziliczi wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:57:47AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > I've finally finished up silo so that it can load images as large as
> > 8Megs on sparc64. SILO 1.4.4 is now in unstable.
> I think the 8Mb limit is large enough for me. :-)))
>
> > Decompression error: uncompressed image too long - wouldn't
> > fit into destination
> >
> > Error loading /vmlinuz
>
> Try to build more items as a module.
> A lot of kernel's options can be built as a module (and put the
> neccessary objects into /etc/modules), and the system works correctly
> henceforward.
There is something more going on than just this. On sparc32 I get the
same error even though the uncompress kernel is 2.7Megs; nowhere near
8.
ls -l src/kernel/*2.4.24*/*/vmlinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 n-dade n-dade 2677949 Feb 23 12:47 src/kernel/2.4.24-3/kernel-source-2.4.24-2.4.24/vmlinux
ls -l /boot/*2.4.24*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1072465 Feb 23 15:06 vmlinuz-2.4.24-3_sun4m_ss_SMP
-Nicolas Dade
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